First Things: An Inquiry Into the First Principles of Morals and Justice

Princeton University Press (1986)
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An Inquiry into the first principles of morals and justice: This book restores to us an understanding that was once settled in the 'moral sciences': that there are propositions, in morals and law, which are not only true but which cannot be ...

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9780691022475   069102247X   0691077029   9780691077024   9780691213897

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IV. ON NECESSARY TRUTHS AND THE EXISTENCE OF MORALS

III. THE "ONE AND ONLY LEGITIMATE CONSTITUTION": GOVERNMENT BY LAW AND GOVERNMENT BY CONSENT

II. ON THE CAPACITY FOR MORALS AND THE ORIGINS OF LAW

I. INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

V. MORAL PRINCIPLES, VALID AND SPURIOUS

VI. ON "VULGAR SYSTEMS OF MORALITY": THE MYTH OF "FACTS" AND "VALUES"

VII. THE FALLACIES OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM; OR, ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE ANTHROPOLOGIST

VIII. FIRST PRINCIPLES: A PROVISIONAL SUMMARY

IX. ON THE GROUNDS FOR EXEMPTION FROM THE LAW: IS CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION MORAL?

X. CAN THERE BE AN OBLIGATION TO RISK ONE'S LIFE FOR ONE'S COUNTRY? THE ATTRACTIONS AND DANGERS OF HOBBES'S TEACHING

XI. ON THE JUSTIFICATIONS OF WAR AND THE TWO VIETNAMS

XII. THE MORALITY OF INTERVENTION

XIII. THE OBLIGATION TO RESCUE AND SUPEREROGATORY ACTS

XIV. THE MORAL CASE FOR WELFARE, THE TROUBLED CASE FOR REDISTRIBUTION

XV. PRIVACY AND THE REACH OF THE LAW

XVI. THE QUESTION OF ABORTION AND THE DISCIPLINE OF MORAL REASONING

XVII. ABORTION AND THE FRAMING OF THE LAWS

XVIII. CONCLUSION

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