Ethics as Social Science: The Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation (New Thinking in Political Economy series)

By Leland B. Yeager

Book Overview

This work grounds moral and poltical philosophy in the requirements of a well-functioning society, exploring the reasons an individual may have for helping to uphold such a society rather than looking to the morality of others. A work in the tradition of Hume, Smith, Mill, von Mises, Hayek and Hazlitt, it expounds a rules or indirect version of utilitarianism. It reviews criticisms of utilitarianism in detail, as well as alternative grounds of ethics including contractarianism, rights-based doctrines, and appeals to specific intuitions. Yeager brings the insights of economics to bear on a field usually dominated by philosophers and theologians.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840645210
• ISBN13: 9781840645217
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"