David Phillips

Sidgwick's the Methods of Ethics

A Guide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Author David Phillips has produced a clear, concise guide to Henry Sidgwick's masterpiece of classical utilitarian thought, The Methods of Ethics, setting it in its intellectual and cultural context while drawing out its main insights into a variety of fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 136mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780197539620
• ISBN-10: 0197539629
• Artikelnr.: 63984256

Autorenporträt

David Phillips is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston. His research interests are in ethics and the history of ethics with a particular focus on British moral philosophers. He is the author of Sidgwickian Ethics (OUP, 2011) and of Rossian Ethics: W.D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory (OUP, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter One: Introduction (Methods Prefaces)
* Chapter Two: Sidgwick's Project and the Three Methods (Methods I.I
and I.VI)
* Chapter Three: Meaning, Motivation, and Free Will (Methods I.III,
I.IV, and I.V)
* Chapter Four: Intuitionism and Goodness (Methods I.VIII and I.IX)
* Chapter Five: The Method of Egoism (Methods I.VII and Book II)
* Chapter Six: The Critique of Common-Sense Morality (Methods
III.I-III.XI)
* Chapter Seven: Philosophical Intuitionism (Methods III.XIII)
* Chapter Eight: Hedonism (Methods III.XIV)
* Chapter Nine: Utilitarianism: Meaning and Proof (Methods IV.I and
IV.II)
* Chapter Ten: Utilitarianism and Common-Sense Morality (Methods
IV.III, IV.IV, and IV.V)
* Chapter Eleven: The Dualism of Practical Reason (Methods Concluding
Chapter)