Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction to this Edition by Fr. Alfred Wierzbicki
Author's Introduction
Part I. Morality as the Field Proper to Ethics
1. The Problem of the Experience of Morality
2. Experience and understanding
3. From a Pre-scientific to a Philosophical Understanding
4. Understanding and Interpretation
5. The Debate about the Interpretation of Morality
6. The Interpretation of Morality as the Uncovering of its Aspects
Part II. The Normativity of Ethics & the Responsibility of the Person
1. The Understanding of Morality and the Questions of Ethics
2. The World of Norms—Their Analogical Character
3. An Attempt at a Closer Determination of Moral Norms
4. Utilitarianism: Is it only a debate about the foundations of the norms of morality?
5. Utilitarianism & Teleology
6. Norms as Truths about Goodness
7. Norms and Exemplarism
8. Ethics—A Normative Science or a Practical One?
Part III. The Natural Law & Personalist Norms
1. The Full Profile of Ethics
2. The Limits of a Practical Science
3. The Limits of a Normative Science
