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Viable Values

A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality

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Viable Values

A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality

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Viable Values examines the most basic foundations of value and morality, demonstrating the shortcomings of major traditional views and proposing that morality is grounded in the objective requirements of human life. Smith argues that human beings need to be moral in order to live, explaining how life is the standard of morality, how flourishing is the proper end and reward of living morally, and how an intelligent egoism is the path to flourishing.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 2 Why Be Moral?
Chapter 3 3 Intrinsic Value: A False Foundation
Chapter 4 4 Morality's Roots in Life
Chapter 5 5 Morality's Reward: Flourishing
Chapter 6 6 Principled Egoism: The Only Way to Live

Product details

Published Jan 12 2000
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 224
ISBN 9781442211919
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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