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Pincoffs, Edmund Lloyd was born on June 7, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Edmund Peter and Rosalind Marie (Posey) Pincoffs.
(Attuned to the revival of moral concern in public and pri...)
Attuned to the revival of moral concern in public and private life, Edmund Pincoffs argues in Quandaries and Virtues that the "structures known as ethical theories are more threats to moral sanity and balance than instruments for their attainment because ethical theories are, by nature, reductive." Pincoffs's is the first full-scale examination of the reductionist tendencies in contemporary ethical theory. It explores questions that previously have received scant attention: How can mutually inconsistent and systematically reductive ethical theories be 'applied' to the resolution of moral problems? Is there a defensible form of virtue-oriented perfectionism? How are we to understand the relation of virtue-ideals to the ethics of obligation?
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(Attuned to the revival of moral concern in public and pri...)
Attuned to the revival of moral concern in public and private life, Edmund Pincoffs argues in Quandaries and Virtues that the "structures known as ethical theories are more threats to moral sanity and balance than instruments for their attainment because ethical theories are, by nature, reductive." Pincoffs's is the first full-scale examination of the reductionist tendencies in contemporary ethical theory. It explores questions that previously have received scant attention: How can mutually inconsistent and systematically reductive ethical theories be 'applied' to the resolution of moral problems? Is there a defensible form of virtue-oriented perfectionism? How are we to understand the relation of virtue-ideals to the ethics of obligation?
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Pincoffs, Edmund Lloyd was born on June 7, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Edmund Peter and Rosalind Marie (Posey) Pincoffs.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity North Carolina, 1941; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1957.
Partner, Maurice Pincoffs Company, Houston, 1946-1950; instructor, U. Houston, 1955-1956; assistant professor, U. Houston, 1956-1960; associate professor, U. Houston, 1960-1965; department chairman philosophy, U. Houston, 1959-1965; visiting fellow, Princeton, 1962-1963; associate professor, University Texas at Austin, 1965-1967; professor, University Texas at Austin, 1967-1984; associate dean Graduate School, University Texas at Austin, 1967-1968; department chairman philosophy, University Texas at Austin, 1976-1980.
(Attuned to the revival of moral concern in public and pri...)
(Attuned to the revival of moral concern in public and pri...)
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Past chairman Texas Committee for Humanities. Served with United States Coast Guard Reserve, 1941-1945. Member American Philosophical Association (Vice-President 1991), Southwestern Philosophical Association (past president), American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, International Association forPhilosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (past president American section), American Association of University Professors(past member of national council, past president Texas conference, past president University Texas chapter), American Civil Liberties Union (past director Central Texas chapter), Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Eta Sigma.
Married Mary Elizabeth Zimmerman, October 1, 1948. Children: Ruth Posey, Peter, Mary.