Ethical Theory : Classical and Contemporary Readings
ISBN: 9780495808770 | 0495808776
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/1/2010
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This authoritative and reader-friendly anthology will help you think through some of humanity's most persistent questions regarding right and wrong, good and bad. ETHICAL THEORY: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY READINGS cuts through the confusion and delivers a clear and comprehensive selection of readings from classical and contemporary sources. Presented in a dynamic pro and con format, with detailed summaries of each argument, this comprehensive anthology allows you to watch the ethical debate unfold before your eyes.
| Preface to the Sixth Editio? | |
| What is Ethics? | |
| Plato: Socratic Morality: Crito | |
| Ethical Relativism Versus Ethical Objectivism | |
| Custom is King | |
| Objective Moral Forms | |
| Objectivism: Natural Law | |
| A Defense of Ethical Relativism | |
| A Critique of Ethical Relativism | |
| Moral Relativism Defended | |
| ... MORE | |
| Against Egoism | |
| Psychological Egoism | |
| Why be Moral? | |
| On the Socratic Dilemma | |
| Morality and Advantage | |
| Value and the Self | |
| The Experience Machine | |
| Value and the Origin of Right and Wrong | |
| The Transvaluation of Values | |
| What Makes Someone's Life Go Best? | |
| Value: the View from Nowhere | |
| Later Selves and Moral Principles | |
| Persons, Character, and Morality | |
| Women's Conception of Self and of Morality | |
| The Need for Care: Gender in Moral Theory | |
| Utilitarianism | |
| Pleasure | |
| The Utilitarian Calculus | |
| Utilitarianism (complete) | |
| Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism | |
| Against Moral Conservatism | |
| Against Utilitarianism | |
| Rule-Utilitarianism | |
| Side Constraints | |
| Famine, Affluence and Morality | |
| Kantian and Deontological Systems | |
| The Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals (complete) | |
| What Makes Right Acts Right? | |
| Kantian Formula of the End in Itself and World Hunger | |
| Moral Luck | |
| Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives | |
| Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem | |
| Contractarian Ethical Systems | |
| The Leviathan | |
| Why Contractarianism? | |
| Contractualism: Justice as Fairness | |
| Virtue-Based Ethical Systems | |
| The Ethics of Virtue (Books 1-4 complete) | |
| Virtue and the Moral Life | |
| A Critique of Virtue-Based Ethics | |
| are Virtues No More than Dispositions to Obey Moral Rules? | |
| The Nature of the Virtues | |
| Moral Saints | |
| in Defense of Moral Saints | |
| The Fact/Value Problem: Metaethics in the Twentieth Century | |
| On Reason and the Emotions: the Fact/Value Distinction | |
| Non-Naturalism | |
| Emotivism | |
| Prescriptivism: the Structure of Ethics and Morals | |
| How to Derive Ought from Is | |
| The Object of Morality | |
| Moral Realism and the Challenge of Skepticism | |
| The Subjectivity of Values | |
| A Critique of Mackie's Error Theory | |
| Moral Nihilism | |
| Two Forms of Ethical Skepticism | |
| Religion and Ethics | |
| Morality and Religion: Euthyphro | |
| Morality Independent from Religion | |
| God and Immortality as Necessary Postulates of Morality | |
| Religious and the Queerness of Morality | |
| Ethics Without God | |
| Contemporary Challenges to Classical Ethical Theory | |
| A. Sociobiology and the Question of Moral Responsibility | |
| Ethics and the Descent of Man | |
| Sociobiology and Ethics | |
| Evolution and Ethics: the Sociobiological Approach | |
| Prospects for an Evolutionary Ethics | |
| The Law of the Jungle, Evolution and Morality | |
| The Challenge of Determinism to Moral Responsibility and Desert | |
| Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility: a Response to Galen Strawson | |
| A Libertarian Defense of Free Will and Responsibility | |
| A Glossary of Ethical Terms | |
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