Ethics

Essential Readings in Moral Theory
Herausgeber: Sher, George

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory is an outstanding anthology of sixty-six of the most important topics, theories and debates in ethics, compiled by one of the leading experts in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 840
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 1656g
• ISBN-13: 9780415782302
• ISBN-10: 0415782309
• Artikelnr.: 34007999

Autorenporträt

George Sher is Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, USA. He is the author Desert (1987), Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism and Politics (1997), Approximate Justice: Studies in Non-Ideal Theory (1997), In Praise of Blame (2006), and Who Knew? Responsibility Without Awareness (2009). He is also a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton Center for Human Values.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction George Sher Part 1: Why be Moral? 1. The Ring of Gyges Plato
2. Psychological Egoism Joel Feinberg 3. Morality and Self-Interest Thomas
Hobbes 4. Morality and Advantage David Gauthier 5. Selections from The
Sources of Normativity Christine Korsgaard 6. Morality as a System of
Hypothetical Imperatives Philippa Foot 7. Moral Rationalism Russ
Shafer-Landau Part 2: The Meaing of Moral Language 8. Morality and Natural
Sentiment David Hume 9. Goodness as Simple and Indefinable G. E. Moore 10.
The Emotive Theory of Ethics A. J. Ayer 11. Selections from Ruling
Passions Simon Blackburn 12. A Critique of Non-Cognitivism, selection from
Moral Realism: A Defense Russ Shafer-Landau 13. Euthyphro Plato 14. A New
Divine Command Theory Robert Merrihew Adams Part 3: Morality, Objectivity,
and Knowledge 15. The Challenge of Cultural Relativism James Rachels 16.
Ethics and Observation Gilbert Harman 17. Moral Explanations Nicholas
Sturgeon 18. The Subjectivity of Value J. L. Mackie 19. Selections from
The View from Nowhere Thomas Nagel 20. Selections from Moral Skepticisms
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 21. But I Could Be Wrong George Sher Part 4:
Normative Ethics: Consequentialism 22. Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill 23.
A Critique of Utilitarianism Bernard Williams 24. Classical Utilitarianism
John Rawls 25. Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality
Peter Railton 26. Rule-Consequentialism Brad Hooker 27. Scalar Morality
Alastair Norcross 28. Should the Numbers Count John Taurek Part 5:
Normative Ethics: Deontology 29. Morality and Rationality Immanuel Kant
30. Reading kant's groundwork David Velleman 31. The Right to Lie: Kant on
Dealing with Evil Christine Korsgaard 32. Maria von Herbert's Challenge to
Kant Rae Langton 33. Selections from A Theory of Justice John Rawls 34.
Contractualism and Utilitarianism Thomas Scanlon 35. What Makes Right Acts
Right W. D. Ross 36. Selections from Ethics Without Principles Jonathan
Dancy Part 6: Virtue and Character 37. The Nature of Moral Virtue
Aristotle 38. Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach Martha
Nussbaum 39. Selection from Virtue, Vice, and Value Thomas Hurka 40. Beyond
Morality, selections from Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche 41. Persons, Character, and Morality Bernard Willliams
42. Moral Saints Susan Wolf 43. Selection from On Virtue Ethics Rosalind
Hursthouse 44. Selection from Lack of Character John Doris Part 7: Value
and Well-being 45. Pleasure as the Good Jeremy Bentham 46. The Experience
Machine Robert Nozick 47. The Good Life Epicurus 48. Goodness as the
Satisfaction of Informed Desire Richard Brandt 49. Facts and Values Peter
Railton 50. Perfectionism, selections from Perfectionism Thomas Hurka 51.
What Makes Someone's Life Go Best? Derek Parfit 52. The Buck-Passing
Account of Value, selection from What We Owe to Each Other Thomas Scanlon
Part 8: Responsibility and Moral Psychology 53. Freedom of the Will and the
Concept of a Person Harry Frankfurt 54. The Genesis of Shame David Velleman
55. Freedom and Resentment P. F. Strawson 56. Responsibility and the Limits
of Evil Gary Watson 57. Moral Luck Thomas Nagel 58. Moral Responsibility
and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions Shaun Nichols
and Joshua Knobe 59. The Secret Joke of Kant's Soul Joshua Greene Part 9:
Applications 60. A Defense of Abortion Judith Jarvis Thomson 61. Subsidized
Abortion: Moral Rights and Moral Compromise George Sher 62. Famine,
Affluence, and Morality Peter Singer 63. Beneficence, Duty, and Distance
Richard Miller 64. What is Wrong With Slavery R. M. Hare 65. Between
Consenting Adults Onora O'Neill 66. Death Thomas Nagel. Index