Life without principles: reconciling theory and practice /

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Author / Creator:Margolis, Joseph, 1924-
Imprint:Cambridge, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
Description:ix, 262 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2424572
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ISBN:0631195025 (pbk.alk. paper)
0631174621( alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue: A Sense of the Issue
  • Part I. The Practice of Theory:Adequational and Existential Strategies
  • Moral Philosophy in Four Tiers
  • Reasonableness and Moral Optimism
  • Part II. The Theory of Practice:A Reckoning of Sorts on Moral Philosophy
  • Life without Principles
  • Epilogue: A Second-Best Morality