Conduct and Character : Readings in Moral Theory

by Timmons, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780534589097
• ISBN10: 053458909X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-07
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

What makes one person full of integrity and another a scoundrel? CONDUCT AND CHARACTER: READINGS IN MORAL THEORY uses fascinating and easy-to-follow selections from the world's best philosophers to present basic ethical theory in a way you can understand. And because it has writings from both sides of an issue, you'll get the whole story.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction to Moral Theory: The Nature and Evaluation of Moral Theories	1	(15)
Basic Moral Concepts	2	(3)
The Aims of a Moral Theory	5	(1)
The Role of Moral Principles in a Moral Theory	6	(1)
The Structure of a Moral Theory	7	(1)
Brief Summary	8	(1)
How to Evaluate a Moral Theory	8	(5)
Preview	13	(3)
Egoism	16	(19)
The Myth of Gyges	16	(2)
Plato
Egoisms	18	(17)
David W. Shoemaker
Ethics by Authority	35	(26)
Morality is Based on God's Commands	35	(3)
Robert C. Mortimer
Does Morality Depend on God's Commands?	38	(11)
Mark Timmons
A Defense of Ethical Relativism	49	(6)
Ruth Benedict
The Challenge of Cultural Relativism	55	(6)
James Rachels
The Natural Law Theory	61	(27)
Treatise on Law	61	(4)
St. Thomas Aquinas
The Ethics of Natural Law	65	(14)
C. E. Harris
The Doctrine of Double Effect	79	(5)
Philippa Foot
Problems for Natural Law Theory	84	(4)
Emmett Barcalow
Consequentialism	88	(27)
The Principle of Utility	88	(6)
Jeremy Bentham
In Defense of Utilitarianism	94	(6)
J. S. Mill
Utilitarianism: Act or Rule?	100	(6)
Stephen Darwall
Rule-Consequentialism	106	(9)
Brad Hooker
Kantian Ethical Theory	115	(36)
The Moral Law and Autonomy of the Will	115	(11)
Immanuel Kant
Kant's Principle of Universal Law	126	(13)
Joshua Glasgow
Kant on Treating People as Ends in Themselves	139	(5)
Onora O'Neill
On Treating People as Ends in Themselves: A Critique of Kant	144	(7)
Fred Feldman
Virtue Ethics	151	(44)
Virtue and Character	151	(10)
Aristotle
Normative Virtue Ethics	161	(11)
Rosalind Hursthouse
A Virtue Ethical Account of Right Action	172	(15)
Christine Swanton
Virtue and Right	187	(8)
Robert N. Johnson
The Ethics of Care	195	(35)
Moral Orientation and Moral Development	195	(8)
Carol Gilligan
An Ethic of Caring	203	(10)
Nel Noddings
Caring and Evil	213	(4)
Claudia Card
Care Ethics and Virtue Ethics	217	(13)
Raja Halwani
Pluralism and Particularism	230
Moral Choice Without Principles	230	(3)
Jean-Paul Sartre
What Makes Right Acts Right?	233	(4)
W. D. Ross
Principles or Particularism?	237	(8)
David McNaughton
Moral Particularism: Wrong and Bad	245
Brad Hooker