On goodness /

This work answers to answer the question 'What is goodness?'. The method it employs to answer this question is linguistic. The central methodological claim of the text is that answering the question 'What is goodness?' requires answering the question 'What does the word ...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Wolfsdorf, David
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford University Press 2019
Zusammenfassung:
This work answers to answer the question 'What is goodness?'. The method it employs to answer this question is linguistic. The central methodological claim of the text is that answering the question 'What is goodness?' requires answering the question 'What does the word 'goodness' mean?'. Consequently, 'On Goodness' is pervasively informed by and critically engaged with ideas and theories in contemporary linguistics.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 314 pages).
Anmerkungen:
Also issued in print: 2019.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780190688523
0190688521
9780190688530
019068853X
9780190688516
0190688513
Schlagworte:
Good and evil
Semantics (Philosophy)
Linguistics > Philosophy.
Virtue.
Virtues.
Metaphysics.
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