HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Ogien, Ruwen, author.
Subjects
Ethics.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Ogien, Ruwen, author.
by title:
Human kindness and t...
MARC Display
Human kindness and the smell of warm croissants : an introduction to ethics / Ruwen Ogien ; translated by Martin Thom.
by
Ogien, Ruwen, author.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2015.
Subjects
Ethics.
ISBN:
9780231169226 (hbk.)
0231169221 (hbk.)
9780231169233 (pbk.)
Description:
xxiii, 224 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Preface: An antimanual of ethics -- Introduction: What is the use of thought experiments? -- Part I. Problems, dilemmas, and paradoxes: nineteen moral puzzles. -- Emergencies -- The child who is drowning in a pond -- A transplant gone mad -- Confronting a furious crowd -- The killer trolley -- Incest in all innocence -- The amoralist -- The experience machine -- Is a short a mediocre life preferable to no life at all? -- I would have preferred never to have been born -- Must we eliminate animals in order to liberate them? -- The utility monster -- A violinist has been plugged into your back -- Frankenstein, minister of health -- Who am I without my organs? -- And if sexuality were free? -- It is harder to do good intentionally than it is to do evil -- We are free, even if everything is written in advance -- Monsters and saints -- Part II. The ingredients of the moral "cuisine." -- Intuitions and rules -- A little method! -- What remains of our moral intuitions? -- Where has the moral instinct gone? -- A philosopher aware of the limits of his moral intuitions is worth two others, indeed more -- Understand the elementary rules of moral reasoning -- Dare to criticize the elementary rules of moral argument -- Conclusion.
Requests:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
170 Og
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kailua-Kona Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
170 Og
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.