Ethical Encounter: The Depth of Moral Meaning
This book shows how our moral concepts are nourished by awe, reverence and various forms of love. These ways of encountering the world and other human beings inform our sense of good and evil, of justice and injustice, of obligation, of fidelity and betrayal, and of many virtues and vices. In ways moral philosophy commonly misses, this book shows moral understanding is broadened and deepened by what is disclosed only in these forms of encounter.
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Ethical Encounter: The Depth of Moral Meaning
This book shows how our moral concepts are nourished by awe, reverence and various forms of love. These ways of encountering the world and other human beings inform our sense of good and evil, of justice and injustice, of obligation, of fidelity and betrayal, and of many virtues and vices. In ways moral philosophy commonly misses, this book shows moral understanding is broadened and deepened by what is disclosed only in these forms of encounter.
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Ethical Encounter: The Depth of Moral Meaning

Ethical Encounter: The Depth of Moral Meaning

by C. Cordner
Ethical Encounter: The Depth of Moral Meaning

Ethical Encounter: The Depth of Moral Meaning

by C. Cordner

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Overview

This book shows how our moral concepts are nourished by awe, reverence and various forms of love. These ways of encountering the world and other human beings inform our sense of good and evil, of justice and injustice, of obligation, of fidelity and betrayal, and of many virtues and vices. In ways moral philosophy commonly misses, this book shows moral understanding is broadened and deepened by what is disclosed only in these forms of encounter.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349418473
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/2002
Series: Swansea Studies in Philosophy
Edition description: 1st ed. 2002
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x (d)

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER CORDNER is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. His main philosophical interest is ethics, on which he has published articles in a range of journals.

Table of Contents

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction Aristotelian Virtue and Beyond Altruism and Moral Meaning Altruism and 'the Other' Absolute Otherness and Common Humanity Duty and Ethical Motivation Virtue and Goodness 'Romantic' Love? Liking, Loving and Respecting Others The Limits of Morality? Endnotes Bibliography Index
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