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When philosophers speak of ethical judgments, they take for granted that their subject matter is that of a single class of judgments with a common set of properties. A central reason for this assumption has been that the leading theories of modern moral philosophy focus on one paradigmatic class of ethical judgments. As a result, these theories fail to adequately accommodate essential aspects of our ethical lives. This dissertation aims to give us a fuller picture of the ethical by rejecting this single class view in favor of an ethical sphere composed of a multiplicity of fundamentally different, yet inter-related, classes of ethical judgments.
| Advisor: | Finlay, Stephen |
| Commitee: | Dreher, John, Olson, Thomas H. |
| School: | University of Southern California |
| Department: | Philosophy |
| School Location: | United States -- California |
| Source: | DAI-A 70/08, Dissertation Abstracts International |
| Source Type: | DISSERTATION |
| Subjects: | Fine arts, Philosophy |
| Keywords: | Ethical, Ethical judgement, Friendship, Impartiality, Morality, Supererogation |
| Publication Number: | 3368718 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-109-29513-9 |
