Ethics and Experience: Life Beyond Moral Theory

ISBN-13: 9781844651467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 288 str.

Tim Chappell

Opis

Understanding Ethics explores the connections and the tensions between happiness and virtue, reason and commitment, motivation and justification, and objectivity and personal significance. It also re-examines familiar theories in normative ethics such as utilitarianism, virtue ethics, Kantianism, and intuitionism from a fresh and revealing perspective. The book is an excellent primer for students taking courses on moral philosophy

Spis treści

1. The Turn to Reason: How Humans Got Ethical 2. Demarcation: What Does "Ethical" Mean? 3. Motivation: Why be Moral? 4. Deliberation: The Question of Reason 5. Introducing Subjectivism and Objectivism 6. Five Arguments for Ethical Subjectivism 7. The Content of Ethics: Expressivism, Error Theory, Objectivism Again 8. Virtue Ethics 9. Utilitarianism 10. Kantianism and Contractarianism 11. Beyond Moral Theory Bibliography Index

O autorze

Tim Chappell