Natural Goodness
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-125, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a few in-text reproductions of ancient coins. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 'Philippa Foot". Foot's theory of moral philosophy, with a special emphasis on the relation between virtue and happiness, and with a critique of Nietzsche's immoralism at the end. Philippa Foot is best-remembered for creating "The Trolley Problem", and for reviving interest in Aristotelian virtue-ethics. She wrote on several topics in applied ethics including an influential article on euthanasia. A sharp copy of an important treatise on moral philosophy. Fine / very near Fine. Item #000012600
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