University Press of America
Pages: 530
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978-0-7618-6070-9 • Paperback • March 2013 • $72.99 • (£56.00)
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Dr. Francesco Belfiore (retired) was professor of internal medicine at the University of Catania, Italy. He worked in medical research, and has published many articles and several monographs, including the acclaimed Enzyme Regulation and Metabolic Diseases (Karger, 1980). In recent years, he has reawakened his long-standing interest in philosophy and has conceived a coherent philosophical system, outlined in his The Structure of the Mind (University Press of America, 2004). Subsequently, he has further developed the practical aspects of his philosophical system, which he has extensively expounded in the first edition of The Ontological Foundation of Ethics, Politics, and Law (2007). He has recently presented his thought concerning the philosophical aspects of democracy in his volume The Democratic Society and Its Founding Concepts (University Press of America, 2012).
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Preface
Preface to the Revised Edition
Chapter 1—Premise: The Basic Ontological Conception
1.1—A NEW ONTOLOGICAL CONCEPTION: THE MIND AND ITS COMPONENTS
1.2—SYNOPSIS OF THE MIND COMPONENTS, THEIR PRODUCTS, AND THEIR JUDGMENT CRITERIA
Chapter 2—Private Ethics: Consciousness and Moral Thoughts, Feelings, and Acts
2.1—CONSCIOUSNESS: INWARD MIND ACTIVITY THAT PRODUCES MORAL EVENTS
2.2—JUDGMENT OF MORAL EVENTS (MORAL THOUGHTS, MORAL FEELINGS, AND MORAL ACTS)
2.3—SUPER-NORMAL AND ABNORMAL MORAL BEHAVIOR
2.4—HUMAN FREEDOM
2.5—THE PRIMACY OF ETHICS
Chapter 3—Public Ethics and Political Philosophy
3.1—HUMAN ACTIONS AND MORAL ACTS: THEIR JUDGMENT BY THE VALUE CRITERION
3.2—POLITICAL CONCEPTS AND THEORIES: CRITIQUE AND REINTERPRETATION
3.3—DIFFICULT MORAL CHOICES IN PUBLIC LIFE
3.4—INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
Chapter 4—Public Ethics and Philosophy of Law
4.1– A NEW CONCEPTION OF LAWs
4.2—LEGAL THEORIES: CRITIQUE AND REINTERPRETATION
4.3—ADJUDICATION
Chapter 5—Concluding Remarks
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