The ties that bind /
"This book, like in classical times (Plato, Aristotle), treats individual and communal ethics as intertwined. At its heart lies the quartet of respect, concern for welfare of others, trust, and care as the basic communal ties. The community needs to be built on these. Acquisition and practice o...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press
2004.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/j.ctv10tq61b |
| Summary: | "This book, like in classical times (Plato, Aristotle), treats individual and communal ethics as intertwined. At its heart lies the quartet of respect, concern for welfare of others, trust, and care as the basic communal ties. The community needs to be built on these. Acquisition and practice of other values and goods are within the frame of the four underlying "pillars". The four basic notions are attitudes and as such consist of both rational and emotional elements. Thus our ethics is based neither purely on sentiment nor purely on reason. As such they will yield us guidelines, to be filled in contextually, not rigid rule systems. Moravcsik's proposal for ethics is pluralistic but not relativistic. It does not deny some objective ground for sound communal life, but leaves many alternatives within which the four basic ties can be implemented."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index. |
| ISBN: | 141757724X 9781417577248 9789639241794 9639241792 9786155053740 615505374X 1281377015 9781281377012 9786611377014 6611377018 |