Ethics As Social Science: The Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation (New Thinking in Political Economy)
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1840645210
ISBN 13
9781840645217
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Publication Year
2001
Publisher
Pages
352
Description
This work grounds moral and poltical philosophy in the requirements of a well-functioning society, exploring the reasons an individual may have for helping to uphold such a society rather than looking to the morality of others. A work in the tradition of Hume, Smith, Mill, von Mises, Hayek and Hazlitt, it expounds a rules or indirect version of utilitarianism. It reviews criticisms of utilitarianism in detail, as well as alternative grounds of ethics including contractarianism, rights-based doctrines, and appeals to specific intuitions. Yeager brings the insights of economics to bear on a field usually dominated by philosophers and theologians. - from Amzon
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