Practical Ethics: A Collection of Addresses and Essays
Oxford University Press (1898)
| Abstract | This is the first book in the Practical and Professional Ethics Series, sponsored by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. It is a reissue of a long-unavailable work by the English philosopher and educator Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900). The book, first published in 1898, collects nine essays, most of which represent addresses to members of two ethical societies that Sidgwick helped found in Cambridge and London in the 1880s. Sidgwick indicates that these societies aimed to allow academics, professionals, and others to pursue joint efforts at reaching "some results of value for practical guidance and life." Sidgwick hoped that the members of these societies might discuss, for example, when public officials might be justified in lying or breaking promises, whether scientists could legitimately inflict suffering on animals for research purposes, or the problem of possible exceptions to common moral ideals that professionals advocate for their own group, along with a score of other problems in practical ethics. Throughout these essays, Sidgwick addresses such problems with the acuity, the genuine concern, and the patient rationale that he brought to all his writings. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Ethics Conduct of life | |||||||||
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| Call number | BJ1581.2.S494 1998 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0195112881 1140294180 1165009927 1140294156 1171684878 1112494979 1164895966 9780195112887 1440086915 | |||||||||
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