The Rational Foundations of Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780367502829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 292 str.

T. L. S. Sprigge

Opis

Originally published in 1988, this landmark study develops its own positive account of the nature and foundations of moral judgement, while at the same time serving as a guide to the range of views on the matter which have been given in modern western philosophy.

Recenzje

‘I do not know of a more many-sided and…persuasive discussion of that notoriously difficult subject, pleasure. And the treatment of the clash between the moral demand to treat others as being as important as ourselves and our natural bent for our own self-fulfilment is first rate.’ Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

1. Utilitarianism 2. Intuitionism: Moore’s Ideal Utilitarianism and Ross’s Theory of Duty 3. The Attitude Theory of Ethics and Some Related Theories 4. Some Great Historical Moralists 5. Pleasure and Pain 6. Desire, Will and Moral Judgement 7. A Kind of Utilitarianism 8. Justice, Rights and Ought 9. Moral Character 10. Ethics and Metaphysics

O autorze

T. L. S. Sprigge was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh