INDEX
a
| abnormality: |
| and normality 108 |
| abortion 3 , 4 , 15 , 173 |
| Abraham 71 , 72 , 76 |
| 'Absurd, The' 79 , 195 |
| absurdity 192 -94; |
| and happiness 193 |
| act utilitarianism 135 -7, 144 -9; |
| and happiness 137 -8 |
| action 54 , 78 , 79 , 92 , 116 , 117 , 118 -19, 122 , 128 -61; |
| and consequences 148 -9, 159 ; |
| and desire 22 -4; |
| and ethics 8 ; |
| and happiness 132 -3, 150 -1; |
| and human nature 67 -8; |
| and inclinations 104 -5; |
| and moral worth 123 ; |
| nature of 139 ; |
| and pain 132 -4; |
| principles of 110 ; |
| and reason 93 -4, 111 -12, 162 -4; |
| and utility 131 ; |
| and value 85 -6; |
| values of 151 -2; |
| see also spontaneity |
| aesthetics 73 |
| afterlife 100 |
| Agade, Akkadia 196 |
| AIDS 41 , 42 |
| Alexander the Great 49 |
| Allah 182 |
| Althing164 |
| altruism 23 , 37 , 133 -5, 162 , 170 , 173 , 204 ; |
| and egoism 21 , 169 , 179 , 202 |
| angels 111 |
| anguish 79 - 83 , 96 ; |
| and bad faith 81 -3 |
| animals 54 ; |
| behaviour 59 - 60 ; |
| and humans 66 ; |
| rational 54 -6 |
| anthropology; |
| and moral philosophy 63 |
| 'Anti-Christ, The' 28 |
| anti-semitism 30 |
| apartheid 174 |
| Aquinas, St Thomas 181 |
| Arctic Circle 63 |
| Arendt, Hannah 120 -1 |
| Ares 191 |
| Aristippus of Cyrene 40 |
| Aristotelian biology 59 ; |
| and sociobiology 60 -1 |
| Aristotelian physics 5 |
| Aristotle 53 - 63 , 68 , 69 , 81 , 99 , 149 ; |
| and Darwinism 177 ; |
| and good 66 ; |
| and good life 56 -7; |
| and happiness 177 ; |
| and naturalism 69 - 70 ; |
| and pleasure 49 - 52 , 53 |
| arrogance 102 |
| art 198 ; |
| concept of 31 |
| Aryan race 96 |
| assessment: |
| and prescription 141 -3 |
| atheism 75 , 76 ; |
| and Sartre 75 , 76 |
| Athens, Greece 1 , 4 |
| 'attributive' 56 |
| Augustine, St 181 |
| authority 172 ; |
| see also moral authority |
b
| Bacon, Francis 5 |
| bad 1 , 2 , 8 , 9 , 37 , 61 , 102 , 128 , 137 , 188 , 195 ; |
| and biology 58 - 60 ; |
| concept of 62 ; |
| intrinsic 187 -8; |
| and self-interest 37 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Eight Theories of Ethics.
Contributors: Gordon Graham - Author.
Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: London.
Publication year: 2004.
Page number: 211.
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