The Fundamentals of Ethics

Russ Shafer-Landau (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2021 | 5th Revised edition
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-005831-9 (ISBN)

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In The Fundamentals of Ethics, Fifth Edition, author Russ Shafer-Landau employs a uniquely engaging writing style to introduce students to the essential ideas of moral philosophy. Offering more comprehensive coverage of the good life, normative ethics, and metaethics than any other text of its kind, this book also addresses issues that are often omitted from other texts, such as the doctrine of doing and allowing, the doctrine of double effect, ethical particularism, the desire-satisfaction theory of well-being, moral error theory, and Ross's theory of prima facie duties. Shafer-Landau carefully reconstructs and analyzes dozens of arguments in depth, at a level that is understandable to students with no prior philosophical background.

Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of several books including Living Ethics (OUP, 2018) and The Ethical Life, Fourth Edition (OUP, 2017). He is also the editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics.

Introduction PART ONE: THE GOOD LIFE 1. Hedonism: Its Powerful Appeal 2. Is Happiness All That Matters? 3. Getting What You Want 4. Problems for the Desire Theory PART TWO: NORMATIVE ETHICS: DOING THE RIGHT THING 5. Morality and Religion 6. Natural Law 7. Psychological Egoism 8. Ethical Egoism 9. Consequentialism: Its Nature and Attractions 10. Consequentialism: Its Difficulties 11. The Kantian Perspective: Fairness and Justice 12. The Kantian Perspective: Autonomy, Free Will, and Respect 13. The Social Contract Tradition: The Theory and Its Attractions 14. The Social Contract Tradition: Problems and Prospects 15. Ethical Pluralism and Absolute Moral Rules 16. Ethical Pluralism: Prima Facie Duties and Ethical Particularism 17. Virtue Ethics 18. Feminist Ethics PART THREE: METAETHICS: THE STATUS OF MORALITY 19. Ethical Relativism 20. Moral Nihilism 21. Eleven Arguments against Moral Objectivity 22. Is Moral Knowledge Possible? Five Skeptical Arguments

Erscheinungsdatum	13.07.2020
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	208 x 137 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	0-19-005831-5 / 0190058315
ISBN-13	978-0-19-005831-9 / 9780190058319
Zustand	Neuware