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Kevin Kinghorn
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Kevin Kinghorn
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Published
April 2016
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This book provides an ethical framework for understanding the good and how we can experience it in increasing measure. In Part 1, Kevin Kinghorn offers a formal analysis of the meaning of the term "good," the nature of goodness, and why we are motivatedto pursue it. Setting this analysis within a larger ethical framework, Kinghorn proposes a way of understanding where noninstrumental value lies, the source of normativity, and the relationship between the good and the right. Kinghorn defends a welfarist conception of the good along with the view that mental states alone directly affect a person's well-being. He endorses a Humean account of motivation- in which desires alone motivate us, not moral beliefs-to explain the source of the normative pressure we feel to do the good and the right. Turning to the place of objectivity within ethics, he concludes that the concept of "objective wrongness" is a misguided one, although a robust account of "objective goodness" is still possible. In Part 2, Kinghorn shifts to a substantive, Christian account of what the good life consists in as well as how we can achieve it.
Hume's emphasis of desire over reason is not challenged but rather endorsed as a way of understanding both the human capacity for choice and the means by which God prompts us to pursue relationships of benevolence, in which our ultimate flourishing consists. This original, carefully argued book will interest scholars and graduate students in moral philosophy and philosophy of religion.
Author
Kevin Kinghorn
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Published
April 2016
Weight
527g
Page Count
376
Dimensions
153 x 229 x 21 mm
ISBN
9780268033309
ISBN-10
0268033307
Eden Code
4432934
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Author/Creator: Kevin Kinghorn
ISBN: 9780268033309
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Release Date: April 2016
Weight: 527g
Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 21 mm
Eden Code: 4432934