ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1959
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Patrick Horace Nowell-Smith - Ethics
Pelican Book [Penguin], 1959
323 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

P. H. Nowell-Smith was born in 1974 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. In 1937 he was elected to a Com-monwealth Fellowship in philosophy at Harvard University. During the war he served in the Army in the Middle East and in India. From 1946 to 1957 he was Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and he is now Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leicester. He has written and broadcast on a variety of topics. Professor Nowell-Smith is married and has four children.

Contents
Editorial Foreword
PART 1: THEORY AND PRACTICE
1. The Task of Ethics
2. Theoretical Ethics
S. Intuitionism
4. The Analogy between Ethics and Science
5. The Logic of Adjectives
6. The Logic of Sentences and Arguments
PART 11: CHOOSING AND ADVISING
7. The Purposes of Practical Discourse
8. Reasons for Choosing
9. Motives
10. Egoism and Hedonism
11. Advice and Exhortation
12. `Good`
PART III: DUTY AND PURPOSE
13. `Right` and `Ought`
14. Duty and Obligation
15. Duty and Purpose
16. The Purpose of Moral Rules
17. Conscientiousness
18. Conscience
19. Freedom and Responsibility (1)
20. Freedom and Responsibility (2)
21. Postscript Index

Editorial Foreword
MR P. H. NOWELL-SMITH`S book on ethics is one of a series of philosophical works which are appearing in a similar form. The series consists mainly in original studies of the work of certain outstanding philosophers, but it covers also a number of more general topics, including, besides ethics, political philosophy, logic, the theory of knowledge, and the philosophy of science.
The series is not designed to reflect the stand-point or to advance the views of any one philo-sophical school. Since it is addressed to an audience of non-specialists, as well as profes-sional philosophers, the contributors to it have been asked to write in as untechnical a manner as their subjects allow, but they have not been expected to achieve simplicity at the cost of accuracy or completeness.
There is a distinction, which is not always sufficiently marked, between the activity of a moralist, who sets out to elaborate a moral code, or to encourage its observance, and that of a moral philosopher, whose concern is not pri-marily to make moral judgements but to analyse their nature. Mr Nowell-Smith writes as a moral philosopher. He shows how ethical statements are related to, and how they differ from, state-ments of other types, and what are the criteria which are appropriate to them. His book deals with the most important problems in the field of moral philosophy, from the objectivity of values to the freedom of the will.
A. J. AYER


Nonfiction, Philosophy, Etika