What Makes Acts Right? [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 12 (3):486-486 (1959)
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A popular introduction to ethics, intended to "stimulate thinking" rather than offer a final solution, which discusses thirteen theories in terms of a number of tests of a good theory of right action.--F. E. B.

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