Titlebook: Human Values; New Essays on Ethics David S. Oderberg (Professor of Philosophy),Timoth Book 2004 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan

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The Polymorphy of Practical Reason,ation: most if not all of our practical reasons arise from them, and to justify an action is to explain something about its relation to the goods. Our practical reasons are, irreducibly, polymorphous; and the source of that polymorphy is the variety of the goods.

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The Structure and Content of the Good,ing point of ethical enquiry. In this is precisely the flaw that its opponents claim to detect, inasmuch as NLT is charged with making implausible assumptions about human nature — its existence, let alone its features — or about the fundamentally teleological character of action, or about the existence of cosmic order.

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,‘Double Effect’ or Practical Wisdom?,ssible action must fit, and hence to offer a decision procedure for dealing with complex cases. PDE, occurring perhaps only once in the writings of Aquinas,. associated with the Jesuit casuists in Louvain and lambasted by Pascal, is still a source of controversy.

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Book 2004gether an international group of moral philosophers who in various respects share the aims and ideals of natural law ethics. In their diverse ways, these authors make distinctive and original contributions to the continuing project of developing natural law ethics as a comprehensive treatment of mod

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Harming and Wronging: The Importance of Normative Context,particular relationship between them that makes normative context important to both. In the course of the chapter, I develop an explanation of what I mean by ‘normative context’ and of its importance to a widely accepted moral constraint and corresponding right.

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Law, Liberalism, and the Common Good,man affairs, that it is common now to encounter arguments in favour of permissive laws on, for example, private drug use, pornography, and sexual and reproductive choice, based on the idea that to intervene in these areas would constitute a breach of the liberal ideal.

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Beyond Double Effect: Side-Effects and Bodily Harm,e description of certain kinds of act. Rather than being just a factor to be weighed against the good effects at which we are aiming, bad side-effects can generate an independent moral conclusion. in conjunction with the long- or short-term intentions with which they are connected.