For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory assesses contemporary trends in ethical theory, including the deontological tradition dating back to Kant, the teleological tradition of the utilitarians, the analytic movement, and the existentialist-phenomenologist movement. In refuting these trends, Henry B. Veatch argues that moral and ethical distinctions cannot be rightly or adequately understood if they are regarded simply as matters of linguistic use but are grounded in the very being and nature of things.

Last modified

• 08/09/2018

Creator

• Henry B. Veatch

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N2513J

Subject

• Philosophy

Publisher

• Northwestern University Press

Keyword

• Ethics and Moral Philosophy

Date created

• 1971

Resource type

• Book

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International