Principles of Moral Philosophy

Classic and Contemporary Approaches

Cahn, Forcehimes (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

592 Seiten

2016
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-049100-0 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Principles of Moral Philosophy: Classic and Contemporary Approaches covers all the major theories in normative ethics--relativism, egoism, divine command theory, natural law, Kantian ethics, consequentialism, pluralism, social contract theory, virtue ethics, the ethics of care, and particularism--and also includes sections on applied ethics and metaethics. It provides students with a balanced introduction to an array of approaches to topics in normative
ethics, offering traditional theories alongside criticisms of them. The readings are enhanced by a variety of pedagogical features including a general introduction, an introduction to each reading, study questions
after each reading, and a glossary of key terms.With one-third of its contemporary readings authored by women, Principles of Moral Philosophy is the most inclusive and balanced normative ethics reader available. A password-protected Instructor's Manual is available on the book's Ancillary Resource Center.

Steven M. Cahn is Professor of Philosophy at The City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author or editor of more than fifty books. Most recently, he coauthored Happiness and Goodness: Philosophical Reflections on Living Well (2015). Dr. Cahn is the editor of The World of Philosophy (OUP, 2015), Ethics, Sixth Edition (OUP, 2015), Exploring Philosophy, Fifth Edition (OUP, 2014), Political Philosophy, Third Edition (OUP, 2014), and Exploring Ethics, Third Edition (OUP, 2013). Andrew T. Forcehimes is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has published articles in Ethics, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Utilitas, and Res Publica. He is also the coeditor, with Larry May, of Morality, Jus Post Bellum, and International Law (2012).

Preface:
PART 1. INTRODUCTION
The Anatomy of Normative Ethics
Andrew T. Forcehimes:
PART 2. RELATIVISM
Moral Relativism: A Defense
Ruth Benedict:
Moral Isolationism
Mary Midgley:
PART 3. EGOISM
The Republic
Plato:
In Defense of Egoism
Jesse Kalin:
Egoism and Moral Skepticism
James Rachels:
PART 4. DIVINE COMMAND THEORY
God and Morality
Steven M. Cahn:
A Modified Divine Command Theory
Robert M. Adams:
PART 5. NATURAL LAW
Summa Contra Gentiles
Thomas Aquinas:
Natural Law
John Finnis:
Natural Law
Russ Shafer-Landau:
PART 6. KANTIAN ETHICS
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant:
Kantianism
Shelly Kagan:
On the Value of Acting from the Motive of Duty
Barbara Herman:
Kant's Formula of Humanity
Christine M. Korsgaard:
Moral Luck
Thomas Nagel:
PART 7. CONSEQUENTIALISM
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Jeremy Bentham:
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill:
The Meaning and Proof of Utilitarianism
Henry Sidgwick:
Well-Being
Shelly Kagan:
Objective and Subjective Consequentialism
Julia Driver:
Rule-consequentialism versus Act-consequentialism
Brad Hooker:
A Critique of Utilitarianism
Bernard Williams:
PART 8. PLURALISM
The Right and the Good
W. D. Ross:
An Unconnected Heap of Duties?
David McNaughton:
How Strong Is this Obligation?
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong:
PART 9. SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes:
A Theory of Justice
John Rawls:
Why Contractarianism?
David Gauthier:
What We Owe to Each Other
T. M. Scanlon:
Can Contract Theory Ground Morality?
Philip Pettit:
PART 10. VIRTUE ETHICS
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle:
Virtue Ethics
Julia Annas:
Normative Virtue Ethics
Rosalind Hursthouse:
Virtue and Right
Robert N. Johnson:
PART 11. THE ETHICS OF CARE
Moral Orientation and Moral Development
Carol Gilligan:
Beyond Caring
Marilyn Friedman:
The Ethics of Care
Virginia Held:
PART 12. PARTICULARISM
Existentialism Is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre:
Particularism, Universalism. and Commonsense Morality
Shelly Kagan:
PART 13. APPLIED ETHICS
A Defense of Abortion
Judith Jarvis Thomson:
An Argument that Abortion Is Wrong
Don Marquis:
Virtue Theory and Abortion
Rosalind Hursthouse:
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer:
Reply to Singer
Travis Timmerman:
The Trolley Problem
Judith Jarvis Thomson:
The Altruism Puzzle
Steven M. Cahn, Harry Brighouse, and Robert B. Talisse:
PART 14. METAETHICS
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume:
Principia Ethica
G. E. Moore:
Ethics and Observation
Gilbert Harman:
Realism
Michael Smith:
Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives
Philippa Foot:
The Last Word
Thomas Nagel:
Glossary:
Index:

Erscheinungsdatum	23.04.2016
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	900 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	0-19-049100-0 / 0190491000
ISBN-13	978-0-19-049100-0 / 9780190491000
Zustand	Neuware