Louis Groarke

Moral Reasoning

Rediscovering the Ethical Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

Every day we are faced with moral dilemmas in both our personal and professional lives. The choices we make, the ways in which we behave, and our responses to these dilemmas are grounded in our personal understandings of ethics and morality. But this understanding is not black and white: What is deplorable to one person may be perfectly acceptable to another. In Moral Reasoning: Rediscovering the Ethical Tradition, author Louis Groarke guides readers through a honing of their critical skills in moral analysis by providing a rich, deep, and far-reaching overview of the discipline. He offers a careful, in-depth introduction to the many schools of moral thought that have contributed to Western philosophy and to the teachings of great moral thinkers such as Confucius, Socrates, Epicurus, Aristotle, Jesus, Epictetus, Aquinas, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, and Kierkegaard. This wide-ranging text considers these many different perspectives on morality with the goal of building up one coherent, larger view. Text-wide inclusion of contemporary examples drawing on these classical ideas fosters critical reflection about today's important moral questions and encourages readers to develop their own considered views that go beyond peer pressure and ideology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 175mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780195425611
• ISBN-10: 0195425618
• Artikelnr.: 33372349

Autorenporträt

Louis Groarke is Associate Professor at St Francis Xavier University, where he teaches Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Philosophy of Human Nature. He has published papers in journals such as Humanities, The Journal of Value Inquiry, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, and The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. His other publications include The Good Rebel: Understanding Freedom and Morality (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002), An Aristotelian Account of Induction: Creating Something From Nothing (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010), and co-edited with Jonathan Lavery, Literary Form, Argumentative Content and Philosophical Genre (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2010). He was recently an associate of the Northrop Frye Centre at Victoria University at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1: Introduction
What Is Ethics?
To Whom Is This Book Addressed?
This Book Presents an Alternative Account of Moral Philosophy
This Book Is an Account of Ethics in the Spirit of Aristotle
What Is the Purpose of Ethics?
Questions for Study and Review
2: Moral Epistemology: We Can Reason about Morality
What is Moral Epistemology?
How Do We Reason
Challenges to Moral Epistemology
The 'Is-Ought' Fallacy
Why Should I be Moral? A Self-Interested Challenge
Moral Philosophy Requires Objectivity and Subjectivity
Questions for Study and Review
Suggestions for Further Reading
3: The Early Tradition: From Confucius to Jesus and Beyond
Introduction
Master Kong (Confucius)
Heraclitus
Democritus
Diogenes the Cynic
Epicurus
Epictetus
Pyrrho
Protagoras
Jesus
Questions for Study and Review
Suggestions for Further Reading
4: Socrates and Plato
Introduction
Socratic Teachings
Plato's Teachings
Questions for Study and Review
Suggestions for Further Reading
5: Understanding Moral Theory: Aristotle
Introduction
On Happiness (Eudaimonia)
On Virtue (Arete)
On Practical Reason
On Means and Ends
On External Goods
On the Good Life
On Three Kinds of Life
On Virtue as Habit
On The Golden Mean
On Morality and Choice
On Two Moral Faults
On Six Character-Styles
On Five Kinds of Intelligence
On Two Minor Intellectual Virtues
On Moral Induction and Moral Deduction
(More) On First Moral Principles
On Slaves and Friends
Questions for Study and Review
Suggestions for Further Reading
6: Understanding Moral Theory: Thomas Aquinas
Introduction
On Religion and Morality: The Euthyphro Problem
On Virtue: Theological and Cardinal
On the Cardinal Virtues
On the Definition of Law
On the Four Kinds of Law
Of the Principle of Double Effect
On the Internal and External Structure of Voluntary Action
On the Three Moral Criteria of a Good Action
A Thomistic Account of Ignorance
Questions for Study and Review
Suggestions for Further Reading
7: The Contractarians: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Karl Marx
Introduction
Ancient Contractarianism: The Anonymous Iamblichi
Thomas Hobbes and the Beginnings of Modern Contractarianism
John Locke: Two-Tiered Contactarianism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and The State of Nature
Karl Marx: Rousseau's Legacy
Hypothetical Agreement
Contractarian Virtue
Questions for Study and Review
Suggestions for Futher Reading
8: Kant: Duty and Moral Law
Introduction
Kant and the Enlightenment
On Reformation Theology
On Duty
On Morality Derives from Pure, A Priori Reason
On Happiness
On Good Will
On Imperatives: Categorical and Hypothetical
The Categorical Imperative: Five Universal Formulations
On Autonomy
Criticisms of Kant's Deontological Approach
Questions for Study and Review
Suggestions for Further Reading
9: Utilitarianism and Liberalism: Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill
Introduction
Jeremy Bentham: Original Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill: Moral and Political Philosophy
Biography
Questions for Study and Review
Suggestions for Further Reading
10: Contemporary Moral Theory
Anti-Theory: A Paradigm Shift in Ethics
Kierkegaard's Transcendental Subjectivism: Becoming Yourself
Personalism: Persons as the Most Fundamental Moral Reality
A Feminist Ethics of Care: Nel Noddings
Human Rights: Looking at Duty Backwards, Punishment
Divine Command Morality
Ecumenical Global Ethics: Agreements between Religions
Environmental Ethics: Beyond Deep Ecology
Contemporary Contractarianism: Rational Agreement
Epilogue
Questions for Study and Review
Suggestions for Further Reading
Glossary
Notes
Index