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Revised edition. |
| Description |
xii, 469 p. ; 21 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A. PRINCIPLES. I. Right: Agreements ; Agreements and desires ; Needs ; Revealing of needs ; Growth-The authoritative need ; Growth and time-consciousness ; Growth, its logical basis and is motive -- II. Wrong: Five familiar tricks of self-deceit ; Other devices of self-deceit ; Recklessness ; Analysis of self-deceit -- B. APPLICATIONS. Honesty ; Keeping and breaking agreements ; Validity of customary and legal agreements ; Interpretation of agreements ; Due care ; Some conjugate principles in ethics ; Ethical security and ethical reform -- C. IMPLEMENTATION. Need of teeth in ethical laws: the weakness of ordering and forbidding, rewarding and punishing ; Ethical brakes and tractors ; Clearing the deck for action -- D. SUPERMORALS. Heroism, enthusiasm, and creative work -- APPENDICES. Some unsolved problems of ethics ; Dislocated fragments of ethical theory ; Definitions ; Fifth-four declarations of war, 1914-1918. |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Ethics. (OCoLC)fst00915833
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