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Moral Theory: An Introduction (Elements of Philosophy)

Moral Theory: An Introduction (Elements of Philosophy)

Current price: $48.00
Publication Date: January 17th, 2022
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
9781538152324
Pages:
368
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Description

Moral Theory explores historically important and currently debated moral theories, including divine command theory, relativism, natural law theory, consequentialism, egoism, Kant's ethics, ethics of prima facie duties, and virtue and care ethics. The third edition features a new chapter on contractualism and an updated guide to terminology.

About the Author

Mark Timmons is professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona. He has published extensively on topics in moral theory, metaethics, and Kant's ethics. He is author of Morality without Foundations (1999), Kant's Doctrine of Virtue: A Guide (2021) and editor of the annual Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics.