Ethics and Experience: Life Beyond Moral Theory

ISBN-13: 9781844651474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str.

Tim Chappell

Opis

Presents an introduction to the question, first posed by Socrates, 'How is life to be lived?' This book treats ethics as a single and broadly unified field of inquiry in which the abstract questions of metaethics and the real-world issues of applied ethics are immediately and directly connected.

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