St. Augustine's Confessions in Kwikscan
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780941485302
Hardcover|9780941485302
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PrefaceIntroduction1. Moral Arguments and MoralityConversations and Conventions -Moral Discussions -Moral Philosophy -The Burden of Proof -Moral, Amoral, and Immoral 2. Doubts about MoralityDogmatism -Universalism -Relativism -Skepticism -Non-Cognitivism -The Function-of-Language Argument -Anti-Realism -First Conclusion 3. Morality and Its DenialA Literary Example and a Warning -Moralism versus Amoralism -What Is the Difference between Moralism and Amoralism? 4. History, Hallucinations, and Human NatureOriginal Humans -Hobbes -Rousseau -Human Nature -Human History -Agriculture, Cities, and the Goddess -Murder in Mesopotamia -Law: Marduk and Hammurabi -Divine Messages -Explaining the Messages -Early Morality 5. Moralism and Amoralism in IndiaThe Aryans -The Vedas -The Upanishads -Karma and Reincarnation -Heterodoxies -Carvaka -Jainism -Buddhism -Persuasive Definitions -Moralism and Indian Thought 6. Moralism and Amoralism in ChinaConfucianism -Moism -Daoism -Mencius -The School of Names -The Yin-Yang School -Legalism -Buddhism in China -Moralism and Chinese Thought 7. Moralism and Amoralism in GreeceMinoans and Mycenaeans -The Aryan Harvest -'Agathos' and Its Persuasive Definition -Hesiod -Government and War -The Philosophers -Socrates and Plato -Justice and the Republic -The Theory of Forms -Aristotle -Moralism and Greek Thought 8. Gods and Religious MoralityThe Enforcers -Some Unfamiliar Deities -Revelation and Divination -What to Believe? -The Genetic Fallacy Fallacy -God-based Moralism 9. Experience and Reason: Secular MoralityRationalist Attempts to Make a Secular Morality -Empiricist Attempts to Make a Secular Morality -David Hume -Richard Price and Thomas Reid -Immanuel Kant -Intuitionism -Making Moralism True by Definition -Conclusion 10. A Survey of Moral TheoriesMetaethics -Normative Ethics -Value -Obligation -Rights -Virtue -Conclusion 11. Amoralists, Critics, Pseudo-Amoralists, and BackslidersThe Amoralist Need Not Be an Immoral, Heartless, Selfish Jerk Who Denies the Obvious -Some Responses to the Amoralist -Pseudo-Amoralists and Backsliders -The Amoralist -What Is Wrong with Morality? 12. Desires and EmotionsWhat to Do about Desires and Emotions -One Extreme: Eliminate Desires and Emotions -The Other Extreme: Indulge Desires and Emotions -A Middle Way -Another Middle Way -Conclusion 13. Decisions, Control, and HarmonyMaking Decisions -The Bicameral Brain Again -Socialization -Force and Control -The Way of Harmony 14. Language, Truth, and Non-DuplicityLanguage -Truth -Non-Duplicity 15. Applied AmoralismApplied Ethics -The Alternative-Applied Amoralism -The Questions -Last Conclusion Works CitedIndex
| ISBN-13 | 9780941485302 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0941485307 |
| List Price | $25.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Publisher | Micro-Books |
| Published On | 1990-05-01 |
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