ABSTRACT
First published in 1935, this book compares and examines what John Laird termed the ‘three most important notions in ethical science’: the concepts of virtue, duty and well-being. Laird poses the question of whether any one of these three concepts is capable of being the foundation of ethics and of supporting the other two. This is an interesting reissue, which will be of particular value to students researching the philosophy of ethics and morality.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |2 pages
Introduction
part |88 pages
Virtue
chapter |12 pages
General Considerations
chapter |18 pages
Classification of the Virtues
chapter |11 pages
The Heart and the Head
chapter |9 pages
The Heart and the Will
chapter |13 pages
Moral and Non-Moral Virtue
chapter |12 pages
Our Knowledge of Virtue
part |103 pages
Duty
chapter |11 pages
Discussion of Conceptions
chapter |23 pages
Duty and the Will
chapter |21 pages
Classification of Voluntary Obligations
chapter |12 pages
Some Problems about Obligation
chapter |19 pages
The Greatness and the Conflict of Obligations
part |112 pages
Benefit and Well-Being