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The Moral Prism

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  • © 1979

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Authors:
  1. Dorothy Emmet

    1. University of Manchester, UK
      Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK
      Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Morality as Contestable

    • Dorothy Emmet
    Pages 1-17

  3. Political Morality

    • Dorothy Emmet
    Pages 18-32

  4. The Moral Context of Science

    • Dorothy Emmet
    Pages 33-41

  5. The Aesthetic Alternative

    • Dorothy Emmet
    Pages 42-50

  6. Religion within the Bounds of Social Morality

    • Dorothy Emmet
    Pages 51-61

  7. Religion as the Quest for Powers

    • Dorothy Emmet
    Pages 62-72

  8. The Daemonic ‘Beyond Good and Evil’

    • Dorothy Emmet
    Pages 73-82

  9. ‘The Will of God’

    • Dorothy Emmet
    Pages 83-92

  10. Existentialist Choice

    • Dorothy Emmet
    Pages 93-103

  11. Single-mindedness

    • Dorothy Emmet
    Pages 104-114

  12. Social Morality Reconsidered

    • Dorothy Emmet
    Pages 115-124

  13. Towards the Sovereignty of Good

    • Dorothy Emmet
    Pages 125-146

  14. Metaphysical Postscript

    • Dorothy Emmet
    Pages 147-158

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 159-173
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Dorothy Emmet

  • Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK

    Dorothy Emmet

  • Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK

    Dorothy Emmet

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Moral Prism

  • Authors: Dorothy Emmet

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81421-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1979

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-81421-3Published: 25 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 173

  • Topics: Moral Philosophy

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