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A Scientific Approach to EthicsNormative Ethics Before the Twentieth Century

A Scientific Approach to Ethics: Normative Ethics Before the Twentieth Century [In this chapter we will explore the most interesting period in the development of ethics—the appearance of the idea of science and the following construction of a new type of knowledge based only on rational argumentation. We will explore how the creators of the new human knowledge understood the methodological status of ethics and will see that surprisingly many of them believed in the possibility of building a scientific variant of ethics. Other philosophers took opposite positions and claimed that scientific ethics was impossible. Later this skepticism had a strong influence on further development of moral philosophy and other social sciences.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Scientific Approach to EthicsNormative Ethics Before the Twentieth Century

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
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978-3-319-69112-1
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37 –77
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10.1007/978-3-319-69113-8_4
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[In this chapter we will explore the most interesting period in the development of ethics—the appearance of the idea of science and the following construction of a new type of knowledge based only on rational argumentation. We will explore how the creators of the new human knowledge understood the methodological status of ethics and will see that surprisingly many of them believed in the possibility of building a scientific variant of ethics. Other philosophers took opposite positions and claimed that scientific ethics was impossible. Later this skepticism had a strong influence on further development of moral philosophy and other social sciences.]

Published: Dec 28, 2017

Keywords: Utilitarianism; Social contract; Natural law; Sense of beauty; Ethics; Scientific method; Scholastic; Skepticism

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