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Moral strategy :

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9401193215

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9789401193214

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b596185

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Moral strategy :

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[Book]

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an introduction to the ethics of confrontation

First Statement of Responsibility

by James K. Feibleman.

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The Hague

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Martinus Nijhoff

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1967

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(xi, 327 pages)

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Book One - Introduction.- I - The Approach to Ethics and Morality.- 1. Methodological Considerations.- a. The Task of Ethics.- b. Methods in Ethics.- c. The Position of Ethics.- 2. Moral Integrative Levels.- 3. A Summary Perspective.- Book Two - The Ethical Integrative Series.- II - The Ethics of the Individual.- 1. The Individual Good.- a. The Good as What is Needed.- b. The Level of the Individual.- c. Excessive Behavior.- d. The Social Nature of the Individual.- e. The Conscience.- 2. Approaches to the Good.- a. The Needs as Motives.- b. Type Responsibility.- c. Confrontation Theory.- d. The Egoistic Perspective.- e. Moral Equipment.- f. Good Reasons.- g. Dispositions Toward the Good.- 3. The Pursuit of the Good.- a. Action and Conduct.- b. The Pursuit of Individual Goods.- c. Bad Behavior.- d. The Incompleteness of Individual Goods.- III - The Ethics of Society.- 1. Morality as Social Structure.- a. Width and Constituents.- b. Needs and Norms.- 2. The Covert Moral Structure.- a. The Implicit Dominant Ontology.- b. Inter-Personal Beliefs.- 3. The Overt Moral Structure.- a. The State.- b. The Institutions.- 4. Rights and Duties.- a. Intrinsic Rights and Wrongs.- b. Extrinsic Rights and Wrongs.- c. Duties.- 5. The Law and Legal Procedures.- a. Levels of Application.- b. The Law as Enacted Morality.- c. Material Goods.- d. Justice.- e. The Incompleteness of Social Goods.- IV - The Ethics of the Human Species.- 1. From Society to Humanity.- a. The Domain of Humanity.- b. Cultural Limits to Ethical Speculation.- c. For and Against Cultural Relativism.- d. Isolated Moral Communities.- 2. Characteristics of the Human Species.- a. Species Type Responsibility and Confrontation.- b. Demotic and Heroic Man.- 3. The Morality of the Human Species.- a. Two Limited Species Principles.- b. Beyond the Two Principles.- 4. Moral Encounters with Near-by Species.- a. To Eat or be Eaten.- b. The Incompleteness of Human Goods.- V - The Ethics of the Cosmos.- 1. The Cosmic Perspective.- a. Man Confronted by the World.- b. Cosmic Ethics.- 2. The Cosmic Good.- a. Matter as Good.- b. Good and Beautiful Quality.- c. Particular Goods.- 3. Truth and Value.- a. Truth a Function of Space.- b. Value a Function of Time.- c. Evil and Uglines.- 4. Cosmic Type Responsibility.- 5. Cosmic Confrontation.- 6. Normative Cosmic Ethics.- a. The Cosmic "Ought".- b. Objective Chance and the Normative.- c. Cosmic Justice.- 7. The Ethics of Man in Relation to the Cosmos.- a. Relations Mediated by the Ethical Integrative Series.- b. Immediate Relations.- Book Three - The Moral Situation and Its Outcome.- VI - Ideal Morality.- 1. The Choice of Ideals.- a. Rival Claimants for the Ideal.- b. The Four Grades of Obligation.- 2. Individual Ideals.- a. The Obligation to Widen Life.- b. Demotic and Heroic Morality.- c. What Should We Think, Feel, and Do?.- 3. Social Ideals.- a. Differences and The Ideal.- b. Similarities: The Ideal Morality.- 4. Human Ideals.- a. The Evolution of Ethical Superman.- b. Trans-Cultural Ethical Principles.- c. The Ideal Material Culture of Humanity.- 5. Cosmic Ideals.- a. Intrinsic Cosmic Goodness.- b. Cosmic Ethical Principles.- VII - Concrete Morality.- 1. Bad Behavior and Immorality.- a. Corruption of the Four Grades of Obligation.- b. The Significance of Bad Behavior.- 2. Bad Individual Behavior.- a. Actively Bad Individual Behavior.- b. Passively Bad Individual Behavior.- c. The Unsocial Individual.- d. The Ambivalence of Aggression.- 3. Bad Social Behavior.- a. The Social Disapproval of Good Behavior.- b. The Social Approval of Bad Behavior.- c. The Bad Behavior of Institutions.- d. The Bad Behavior of Societies.- 4. Bad Species Behavior.- 5. Bad Cosmic Behavior.- VIII - Moral Strategy.- 1. The Uses of Strategy.- a. The Ideal, the Actual and the Strategic.- b. The Four Grades of Obligation.- 2. The Strategy of Individual Obligation.- a. Individual Moral Methodology.- b. Practical Moral Conduct.- c. The Formula for Happiness.- d. The Rational and the Good.- 3. The Strategy of Social Obligation.- a. Social Strategy Toward the Individual.- b. Demotic and Heroic Strategy.- c. Institutional Strategy.- 4. The Strategy of Human Obligation.- 5. The Strategy of Cosmic Obligation.- a. The Paradoxes of Ultimate Explanation.- b. Toward the Unlimited Community.- c. Standpointlessness.- d. Dual Attachment.- Name Index.- Topic Index.

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