Snare, Francis,

The nature of moral thinking /Francis Snare. - London ; New York : Routledge, (c)1992. - vi, 187 pages ; 22 cm.



Moral thinking and philosophical questions -- Authoritarian ethics and subjectivist ethics -- Some classic ethical theories -- Psychological egoism and hedonism -- Meta-ethical theories -- Hume's gap and the naturalistic fallacy -- Relativism in general -- Descriptive relativism and meta-ethical subjectivism -- Genetic accounts which debunk morality -- Descriptive relativism and varieties of normative relativism -- Whether meta-ethical subjectivism has practical consequences -- Methods of justifying a normative ethical theory.



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Ethical relativism.
Subjectivity.

BJ1012 / .N388 1992 BJ1012