Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Ethical Encounter

The Depth of Moral Meaning

  • Book
  • © 2002

Overview

Authors:
  1. Christopher Cordner

    1. University of Melbourne, Australia

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Swansea Studies in Philosophy (SWSP)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Christopher Cordner
    Pages 1-19

  3. Aristotelian Virtue and Beyond

    • Christopher Cordner
    Pages 20-44

  4. Altruism and Moral Meaning

    • Christopher Cordner
    Pages 45-60

  5. Altruism and ‘the Other’

    • Christopher Cordner
    Pages 61-73

  6. Absolute Otherness and Common Humanity

    • Christopher Cordner
    Pages 74-85

  7. Duty and Ethical Motivation

    • Christopher Cordner
    Pages 86-103

  8. Goodness and the Classical Limits of Virtue

    • Christopher Cordner
    Pages 104-129

  9. ‘Romantic’ Love?

    • Christopher Cordner
    Pages 130-146

  10. Liking, Loving and Respecting Others

    • Christopher Cordner
    Pages 147-164

  11. Goodness and Vulnerability

    • Christopher Cordner
    Pages 165-177

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 178-208
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book shows how our moral concepts are nourished by awe, reverence and various forms of love. These ways of encountering the world and other human beings inform our sense of good and evil, of justice and injustice, of obligation, of fidelity and betrayal, and of many virtues and vices. In ways moral philosophy commonly misses, this book shows moral understanding is broadened and deepened by what is disclosed only in these forms of encounter.

Reviews

'...an intriguing, original grounding for morality...Cordner is a pleasure to read, for he develops his theses through beautifully crafted meditations upon incidents from literature and life. His many fine distinctions and intriguing insights about moral action and motivation will broaden and deepen any reader's understanding of morality...his book is a lyrically written, persuasive evocation of an important strand in the tapestry (or tangle) that constitutes contemporary moral theory.' - Howard J. Curzer, The Philosophical Quarterly

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Australia

    Christopher Cordner

About the author

CHRISTOPHER CORDNER is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. His main philosophical interest is ethics, on which he has published articles in a range of journals.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ethical Encounter

  • Book Subtitle: The Depth of Moral Meaning

  • Authors: Christopher Cordner

  • Series Title: Swansea Studies in Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230509177

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-78636-9Published: 14 December 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-41847-3Published: 01 January 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50917-7Published: 14 December 2001

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 208

  • Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Aesthetics

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation