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An Introduction to Western Moral Philosophy: Key People and Issues

by Michael Langford

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge Text Education
  • 15.2 x 23 x 1.4 cm

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Designed for an international readership, this new Introduction to Western Moral Philosophy combines an examination of critical thinking (which characterizes Western philosophy) with an account of key philosophers in the tradition that have helped to shape it. In each case, these philosophers are not taken as 'authorities', but as thinkers who have 'laid their fingers' on aspects of the tradition that reveal insight, and that no subsequent philosopher can ignore. The book is based on lectures, given in Canada and Cambridge, at first year university level. In three places it invites the reader to go beyond the introductory level; first, in a discussion of the proper relationship of philosophy to religion (which the author holds has been widely misunderstood); second, in a discussion of the controversial issue of free will (where a particular point of view is defended); third - following an account of the contemporary failure to find any generally acceptable moral philosophy - Professor Langford outlines his own proposal for such a philosophy, based on a dialectic that moves from (i) social rules (in the manner of the English philosopher H.L.A. Hart), (ii) through a kind of 'reflective turn' (characterized by Greek thinking), towards (iii) an 'agape revolution', in which writers such as Martha Nussbaum are prominent.
An Introduction to Western Moral Philosophy: Key People and Issues and The Tradition of Liberal Theology
The Tradition of Liberal TheologyAn Introduction to Western Moral Philosophy: Key People and Issues

  • Author

    Michael Langford

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge Text Education

  • Published

    November 2018

  • Weight

    355g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 23 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781789710007

  • ISBN-10

    1789710006

  • Eden Code

    4944746

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