Jacobs introduces the issues, language, concepts and positions central to ethical theorizing. Entries range from antiquity to the present and basic to advance. Cross-referencing allows readers to explore topics in depth. Items explain complex issues of normative ethics, metaethics and moral psychology in non-technical language.

Jonathan Jacobs is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Division of the Humanities at Colgate University, New York. He is the author of Aristotle's Virtues: Nature, Knowledge, and Human Good (Lang, 2003), Dimensions of Moral Theory (Blackwell, 2002), Choosing Character: Responsibility for Virtue and Vice (Cornell University Press, 2001).

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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• Publication Date: October 15, 2005
• Pages: 192
• ISBN13: 9780748620142
• Item Weight: 206 grams
• Original Price: 23.99 GBP
• Edition: N/A
• Binding: Paperback