The Triumph of Practice Over Theory in Ethics

by James P. Sterba

Book Overview

Aristotelian ethics, Kantian ethics, and utilitarian ethics have been for some time now the main options within (Western) ethics, and the central task over the years has been to determine which of the three is right. Is this book yet another attempt to fulfill this same old task? Not at all. Sterba argues that in their ongoing attempts to put forward for general consideration the most morally defensible versions of their views, advocates of Aristotelian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195132858
• ISBN13: 9780195132854
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.2"