The Concept of Moral Obligation
The Concept of Moral Obligation
Michael J. Zimmerman, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
August 2007
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The principal aim of this book is to develop and defend an analysis of the concept of moral obligation. What it seeks to do is generate new solutions to a range of philosophical problems concerning obligation and its application. Among these problems are deontic paradoxes, the supersession of obligation, conditional obligation, actualism and possibilism, dilemmas, supererogation, and cooperation. By virtue of its normative neutrality, the analysis provides a theoretical framework within which competing theories of obligation can be developed and assessed.
- Book is comprehensive in its coverage of the subject
- Addresses central topic in the field of ethical theory
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"...an impressive, careful and helpful book....Zimmerman offers delightful and stimulating brief forays into the territory that he passes by." David Sobel, Ethics
Product details
August 2007Paperback
9780521038744
320 pages
215 × 140 × 17 mm
0.417kg
27 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Groundwork: some distinctions
- 2. Moral obligation: an analysis
- 3. The dynamics of obligation
- 4. Conditional obligation
- 5. Prima facie obligation
- 6. Actualism and possibilism
- 7. Dilemmas
- 8. Supererogation
- 9. Cooperation
- Postscript
- Appendix: list of propositions
- List of works cited
- Index of names
- Index of subjects.
