02785cam a22002534a 4500 14132851 AUA.1 20180430121337.0 051005s2006 njua b 001 0 eng 9966882170 (OCoLC)ocm61879701 JTL BJ1025 .G43 1997 174/.4 22 Gichure, Christine W. 21150 Basic concepts in ethics / Christine W. Gichure Nairobi : Focus Publications, 1997. vii, 238 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Human beings quest for happiness Definition of ethics The methods of ethics Division of ethics Relationship between ethics and other areas of study II. THE PERSON AND THE HUMAN ACT What is a person? The necessities of freedom for morality The moral act Some theories regarding the morality of actions III. VOLUNTARIES AND AUTONOMY OF HUMAN ACTS The voluntary act Passions and emotions Happiness and pleasure Kinds of love Altruistic importance of commanded acts IV. GOOD, HAPPINESS AND FINALITY: PRINCIPLES OF THE MORAL ORDER Goodness as the originator of happiness Necessity of teleology in ethics Some conflicting theories regarding the source of morality Happiness: exclusive and inclusive ends V. NATURAL MORAL LAW A. Nature and the natural The notion of the natural law in the history of philosophy Notion of law Natural moral law and freedom B. Right and wrong in society: Notion of moral duty and obligation Moral conscience VI. VIRTUE: ITS PLACE IN ETHICS The notion of virtue in pre-philosophic societies The concept of virtue at the zenith of earlier western philosophical thought Kinds of virtues Necessity of virtue in moral life The practice of virtue and growth in personality VII. ETHICAL PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE PRACTICE OF JUSTICE IN RELATION TO LIFE Right to life Role of philosophy VIII. ETHICAL PROBLEMS CONCERNING WORK AND THE RIGHT OF APPROPRIATION OF GOODS Ownership The right to work Philosophical perspective of human work Perfective dimensions of human work Necessity of human work MAJOR TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY MORAL PHILOSOPHY IX. METHODS AND MODELS OF MODERN ETHICS Utilitarian models Ethics of logical-positivism and analytical philosophy Ethics based on the metaphysical realism Vitalism and moral nihilism: Nietzsche CONCLUSION Problems of contemporary moral philosophy Linguistic analysis as ethics Moral pluralism Legalism, minimal or obligation ethics Revindication of virtue ethics Ethics 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BOOK BJ 1025 .G43 1997 6111 6111 0 0 lcc 0 0 Books AUA.1 AUA.1 GS 2012-03-14 Bought by JTL 5.00 AUA007933 1 1 BJ 1025 .G43 1997 AUA007933 2014-05-13 00:00:00 2014-04-06 5.00 2012-03-14 BOOK