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The Evil Within : Why We Need Moral Philosophy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190685386
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Evil WithinDDC classification:
  • 170
LOC classification:
  • BJ1401 .J475 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
cover -- The Evil Within -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Learning from Evil -- 2. Just the Bad and the Ugly -- 3. Culture and Moral Evaluation -- 4. Do the Ends Justify the Means? -- 5. The Feeling of Morality -- 6. Moral Evasion -- 7. The Moral of Mr. Jefferson's Story -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Slave-holders, Nazis, and psychopaths are indisputably bad people. But the ways in which they attempt to justify their actions provide uncomfortable parallels with our own moral deliberations. Moral philosophy provides tools for examining and evaluating our moral deliberations, and so serve an important function in moral education.
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cover -- The Evil Within -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Learning from Evil -- 2. Just the Bad and the Ugly -- 3. Culture and Moral Evaluation -- 4. Do the Ends Justify the Means? -- 5. The Feeling of Morality -- 6. Moral Evasion -- 7. The Moral of Mr. Jefferson's Story -- Notes -- Index.

Slave-holders, Nazis, and psychopaths are indisputably bad people. But the ways in which they attempt to justify their actions provide uncomfortable parallels with our own moral deliberations. Moral philosophy provides tools for examining and evaluating our moral deliberations, and so serve an important function in moral education.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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