Ethics: What We Still Know After a Skeptical Age

by Charles Siegel

Modern philosophers rejected classical ethics because they believed in the logical principle that we cannot derive "ought statements" from "is statements." This book shows that this logical principle if false. You can derive "ought statements" from teleological "is statements," statements about function, goal, or purpose. In reality, philosophers rejected classical ethics because they rejected Aristotle's teleological view of nature. In the seventeenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978872835
• ISBN13: 9780978872830
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Preservation Institute
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"