Author: SIDGWICK, HENRY & SISSELA BOK (INTRODUCTION)
Title: Practical Ethics a Collection of Addresses and Essays
Description: NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. Hardcover. ISBN: 0195112881. Inscribed by Sissela Bok to Julius Moravcsik on title page. Light shelfwear to book and DJ. ; Xxii, 142pp. A classic work in the field of practical and professional ethics, this collection of nine essays by English philosopher and educator Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) was first published in 1898 and forms a vital complement to Sidgwick's major treatise on moral theory, The Methods of Ethics. Reissued here as Volume One in a new series sponsored by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, the book is composed chiefly of addresses to members of two ethical societies that Sidgwick helped to found in Cambridge and London in the 1880s. Clear, taut, and lively, these essays demonstrate the compassion and calm reasonableness that Sidgwick brought to all his writings. ; Practical and Professional Ethics; 142 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0195112881 ETHICS Philosophy & Philosophers


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