A Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy

Brent Adkins (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2278-9 (ISBN)

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Brent Adkins traces the history of ethics and morality by examining six thinkers: Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche and Levinas. You’ll learn what the philosophers actually said about how to live the best kind of life and, more importantly, why.

How should we live? How should we act? How might we live? These are the three questions of moral philosophy.
Brent Adkins traces the history of ethics and morality by examining six thinkers: Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche and Levinas. The book is divided into 3 sections – Ethics, Morality and Beyond. Two thinkers are paired in each section to show you how the important questions of moral philosophy have been answered so that you might better answer them for yourself. You’ll learn what the philosophers actually said about how to live the best kind of life and, more importantly, why.

Brent Adkins is Professor of Philosophy at Roanoke College. He is the author of A Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2017, Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze: A New Cartography (Bloomsbury, 2013), True Freedom: Spinoza’s Practical Philosophy (Lexington Books, 2009) and Death and Desire in Hegel, Heidegger, and Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2007).

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Introduction: Three Questions

Part I: EthicsHow Should We Live? Aristotle and Spinoza1. Aristotle: Happiness is the Good 2. Aristotle: Virtue and the Highest Happiness 3. Spinoza: The Universe and Power 4. Spinoza: Emotions and Freedom

Part II: MoralityHow Should We Act? Kant and Mill5. Kant: Happiness is not the Good 6. Kant: The Categorical Imperative 7. Mill: Happiness is Pleasure 8. Mill: The Greatest Happiness for the Greatest Number

Part III: BeyondHow Might We Live? Nietzsche and Levinas9. Nietzsche: These are the Wrong Questions 10. Nietzsche: Morality and Power 11. Levinas: Philosophy and Appropriation 12. Levinas: Ethics and the Other

Conclusion: Beyond Beyond

Suggestions for Further Reading Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.02.2017
Zusatzinfo	9 black and white illustrations, 4 black and white tables
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	246 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	1-4744-2278-0 / 1474422780
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-2278-9 / 9781474422789
Zustand	Neuware