Treatise on Basic Philosophy Ethics: The Good and The Right
The purpose of this Introduction is to sketch our approach to the study of value, morality and action, and to show the place we assign it in the system of human knowledge. 1. VALUE, MORALITY AND ACTION: FACT, THEORY, AND METATHEORY We take it that all ani
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Volume 8 ETHICS: THE GOOD AND THE RIGHT
TREATISE ON BASIC PHILOSOPHY
1 SEMANTICS I
Sense and Reference 2
SEMANTICS II
Interpretation and Truth 3
ONTOLOGY I
The Furniture of the World 4
ONTOLOGY II
A World of Systems 5
EPISTEMOLOGY & METHODOLOGY I
Exploring the World 6
EPISTEMOLOGY & METHODOLOGY II
Understanding the World 7
EPISTEMOLOGY & METHODOLOGY III Part I Part II
Philosophy of Science & Technology Formal and Physical Sciences Life Science, Social Science and Technology 8
ETHICS
The Good and the Right
MARIO BUNGE
Treatise on Basic Philosophy VOLUME 8
Ethics:
THE GOOD AND THE RIGHT
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Bunge, Mario Augusto. Ethics: the good and the right / Mario Bunge. p. cm. - (Treatise on basic philosophy: v. 8) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Ethics. 2. Social ethics. 1. Title. II. Series: Bunge, Mario Augusto. Treatise on basic philosophy; v. 8. B11012.B75 1989 170-dcl9 89-2394 ISBN-13: 978-90-277-2840-1 e-TSBN-13: 978-94-009-260 I-I DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-2601-1
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GENERAL PREFACE TO THE TREA T/SE
This volume is part of a comprehensive Treatise on Basic Philosophy. The treatise encompasses what the author takes to be the nucleus of contemporary philosophy, namely semantics (theories of meaning and truth), epistemology (theories of knowledge), metaphysics (general theories of the world), and ethics (theories of value and right action). Social philosophy, political philosophy, legal philosophy, the philosophy of education, aesthetics, the philosophy of religion and other branches of philosophy have been excluded from the above quadrivium either because they have been absorbed by the sciences of man or because they may be regarded as applications of both fundamental philosophy and logic. Nor has logic been included in the Treatise although it is as much a part of philosophy as it is of mathematics. The reason for this exclusion is that logic has become a subject so technical that only mathematicians can hope to make original contributions to it. We have just borrowed whatever logic we use. The phi
