Good Will

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Good Will

A Study in the Coherence Theory of Goodness

Philosophy

Author: H J Paton

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 3rd June 2014

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781317852643


First published in 2002

This is Volume X of twelve in the Library of Philosophy series on Ethics. Written in 1927, this book presents a study in the Coherence Theory of Goodness and looks at areas of will and its context, self and self-knowledge, the world and self and develops into the will as immediate and as individual.

The book ends on will as both moral and social. It looks at goodness on two main sides: The first is that goodness has its roots in the spiritual activity called willing; that it belongs to things, not in themselves, but as objects of some kind of willing.

The second is that goodness belongs to the coherent will; that different kinds of goodness, whether in actions or in things, are due to the different kinds of coherence in the will which wills them; and that moral goodness in particular belongs to a will which is coherent as a member of an all-inclusive, society of coherent wills.

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