222 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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Formal Ethics is the study of formal ethical principles. The most important of these, perhaps even the most important principle of life, is the golden rule: "Treat others as you want to be treated". Although the golden rule enjoys support amongst different cultures and religions in the world, philosophers tend to neglect it. Formal Ethics gives the rule the attention it deserves. Modelled on... Read more
Chapter 1 What Is Formal Ethics?; Chapter 2 Logicality; Chapter 3 Conscientiousness; Chapter 4 Impartiality; Chapter 5 The Golden Rule; Chapter 6 Universal Law; Chapter 7 Moral Rationality; Chapter 8 Symbolic Logic;
Biography
Harry J. Gensler, S.J.is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton. He is the author of Göxdel’s Theorem Simplified, Logic: Analyzing and Appraising Arguments, and Symbolic Logic: Classical and Advanced Systems. He has also written LogiCola, a logic instructional program.
'A clear, direct and penetrating assessment of attempts to make pastoral sense of rules, principles and theories.' - Contact
