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9780534570330

Ethical Theory Classical and Contemporary Readings

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  • Copyright: 2001-08-03
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Preface. PART I: WHAT IS ETHICS? Plato: "Socratic Morality: Crito." Suggestions for Further Reading. PART II: ETHICAL RELATIVISM VERSUS ETHICAL OBJECTIVISM. Herodotus: "Custom is King." Thomas Aquinas: "Objectivism: Natural Law." Ruth Benedict: "A Defense of Ethical Relativism." Louis Pojman: A Critique of Ethical Relativism." Gilbert Harman: "Moral Relativism Defended." Suggestions for Further Reading. PART III: ETHICAL EGOISM. Thomas Hobbes: "The Leviathan." Joel Feinberg: "Psychological Egoism." Brian Medlin: "Ultimate Principles and Ethical Egoism." Jesse Kalin: "In Defense of Egoism." Suggestions for Further Reading. PART IV: VALUE. Jeremy Bentham: "Classical Hedonism." Robert Nozick: "The Experience Machine." Richard Taylor: "Value and the Origin of Right and Wrong." Friedrich Nietzsche: "The Transvaluation of Values." Derek Parfit: "What Makes Someone''s Life Go Best?" Thomas Nagel: "Value: The View from Nowhere." Suggestions for Further Reading. PART V: UTILITARIANISM AND CONSEQUENTIALISM. John Stuart Mill: "Utilitarianism." J.J.C. Smart: "Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism." Kai Nielsen: "Against Moral Conservatism." Bernard Williams: "Against Utilitarianism." John Hospers: "Rule Utilitarianism." Robert Nozick: "Moral Side Constraints." Philippa Foot: "Utilitarianism and the Virtues." Samuel Scheffler: "Agent-Centered Restrictions, Rationality, and the Virtues." Richard Fumerton and Diane Jeske: "Relatives and Relativities: A Critique of Consequentialism." Peter Singer: "Famine, Affluence and Morality." Suggestions for Further Reading. PART VI: KANTIAN AND DEONTOLOGICAL SYSTEMS. Immanuel Kant: "The Foundations of the Metaphysic of Morals." W. D. Ross: "What Makes Right Acts Right?" Onora O''Neill: "Kantian Formula of the End in Itself and World Hunger." Robert Audi; "Kantian Intuitionism." Thomas Nagel: "Moral Luck." Philippa Foot: "Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect." Warren Quinn. "Actions, Intentions, and Consequences: The Doctrine of Double Effect." Suggestions for Further Reading. PART VII: VIRTUE-BASED ETHICAL SYSTEMS. Aristotle: "The Ethics of Virtue." Bernard Mayo: "Virtue and the Moral Life." William Frankena: "A Critique of Virtue-Based Ethical Systems." Walter Schaller: "Are Virtues No More than Dispositions to Obey Moral Rule?" Alasdair MacIntyre: "The Nature of the Virtues." Susan Wolf: "Moral Saints." Louis P. Pojman: In Defense of Moral Saints." Suggestions for Further Reading. PART VIII: THE FACT/VALUE PROBLEM: METAETHICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. David Hume: "On Reason and Emotions: The Fact/Value Distinction." G. E. Moore: "Non-Naturalism and the Indefinability of the Good." A. J. Ayer: "Emotivism." R. M. Hare: "Prescriptivism: The Structure of Ethics and Morals." Geoffrey Warnock: "The Object of Morality." Suggestions for Further Reading. PART IX: MORAL REALISM AND THE CHALLENGE OF SKEPTICISM. J.L. Mackie: "The Subjectivity of Values." Jonathan Harrison: "A Critique of Mackie''s Error Theory." Gilbert Harman: "Moral Nihilism." Nicholas Sturgeon: "Moral Explanations." Bernard Williams: "Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy." Bruce Russell: "Two Forms of Ethical Skepticism." Michael Smith: "A Defense of Moral Realism." Suggestions for Further Reading. PART X: MORALITY, SELF-INTEREST AND FUTURE SELVES. Plato: "Why Be Moral?" David Gauthier: "Morality and Advantage." Gregory Kavka: "A Reconciliation Project." Derek Parfit: "Morality and the Future Selves." Bernard Williams: "Persons, Character, and Morality." Suggestions for Further Reading. PART XI: RELIGION AND ETHICS. Plato: "Morality and Religion." Immanuel Kant: "God and Immortality as Necessary Postulates of Morality." Bertrand Russell: "A Free Man''s Worship." George Mavrodes: "Religious and the Queerness of Morality." Kai Nielson: "Ethics Without God." Suggestions for Further Reading. PART XII: CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES TO CLASSICAL ETHICAL THEORY. Part A. Sociobiology, Evolution and Ethics. Charles Darwin: "Ethics and the Descent of Man." E

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition xi
Part I What Is Ethics? 1(14)
Socratic Morality: Crito
8(7)
Plato
Suggestions for Further Reading
14(1)
Part II Ethical Relativism versus Ethical Objectivism 15(48)
Custom Is King
20(1)
Herodotus
Objectivism: Natural Law
20(13)
Thomas Aquinas
A Defense of Ethical Relativism
33(5)
Ruth Benedict
A Critique of Ethical Relativism
38(14)
Louis Pojman
Moral Relativism Defended
52(11)
Gilbert Harman
Suggestions for Further Reading
62(1)
Part III Ethical Egoism 63(48)
The Leviathan
66(13)
Thomas Hobbes
Psychological Egoism
79(11)
Joel Feinberg
Ultimate Principles and Ethical Egoism
90(5)
Brian Medlin
In Defense of Egoism
95(16)
Jesse Kalin
Suggestions for Further Reading
109(2)
Part IV Value 111(40)
Classical Hedonism
115(3)
Jeremy Bentham
The Experience Machine
118(2)
Robert Nozick
Value and the Origin of Right and Wrong
120(7)
Richard Taylor
The Transvaluation of Values
127(7)
Friendrich Nietzsche
What Makes Someone's Life Go Best?
134(7)
Derek Parfit
Value: The View from Nowhere
141(10)
Thomas Nagel
Suggestions for Further Reading
150(1)
Part V Utilitarianism 151(100)
Utilitarianism
155(22)
John Stuart Mill
Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism
177(6)
J. J. C. Smart
Against Moral Conservatism
183(9)
Kai Nielsen
Against Utilitarianism
192(9)
Bernard Williams
Rule-Utilariannism
201(10)
John Hospers
Side Constraints
211(4)
Robert Nozick
Utilitarianism and the Virtues
215(9)
Philippa Foot
Agent-Centered Restrictions, Rationality, and the Virtues
224(9)
Samuel Scheffler
Relatives and Relativities: A Critique of Consequentialism
233(8)
Diane Jeske
Richard Fumerton
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
241(10)
Peter Singer
Suggestions for Further Reading
249(2)
Part VI Kantian and Deontological Systems 251(78)
The Foundation for the Metaphysic of Morals
255(20)
Immanuel Kant
What Makes Right Acts Right?
275(9)
W. D. Ross
Kantian Formula of the End in Itself and World Hunger
284(10)
Onora O'Neill
Moral Luck
294(8)
Thomas Nagel
Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect
302(7)
Philippa Foot
Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem
309(9)
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Actions, Intentions, and Consequences: The Doctrine of Double Effect
318(11)
Warren Quinn
Suggestions for Further Reading
328(1)
Part VII Virtue-Based Ethical Systems 329(70)
The Ethics of Virtue
333(14)
Aristotle
Virtue and the Moral Life
347(3)
Bernard Mayo
A Critique of Virtue-Based Ethics
350(6)
William Frankena
Are Virtues No More Than Dispositions to Obey Moral Rules?
356(7)
Walter Schaller
The Nature of the Virtues
363(14)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Moral Saints
377(11)
Susan Wolf
In Defense of Moral Saints
388(11)
Louis P. Pojman
Suggestions for Further Reading
397(2)
Part VIII The Fact/Value Problem: Metaethics in the Twentieth Century 399(44)
On Reason and the Emotions: The Fact/Value Distinction
405(7)
David Hume
Non-Naturalism
412(7)
G. E. Moore
Emotivism
419(6)
A. J. Ayer
Prescriptivism: The Structure of Ethics and Morals
425(8)
R. M. Hare
The Object of Morality
433(10)
Geoffrey Warnock
Suggestions for Further Reading
441(2)
Part IX Moral Realism and the Challenge of Skepticism 443(94)
The Subjectivity of Values
446(10)
J. L. Mackie
A Critique of Mackie's Error Theory
456(9)
Jonathan Harrison
Moral Nihilism
465(9)
Gilbert Harman
Moral Explanations
474(12)
Nicholas Sturgeon
Moral Theory and Explanatory Importence
486(15)
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
501(12)
Bernard Williams
Two Forms of Ethical Skepticism
513(12)
Bruce Russell
A Defense of Moral Realism
525(12)
Michael Smith
Suggestions for Further Reading
535(2)
Part X Morality, Self-Interest and Future Selves 537(60)
Why Be Moral?
540(6)
Plato
On the Socratic Dilemma
546(5)
Richard Taylor
Morality and Advantage
551(8)
David Gauthier
A Reconciliation Project
559(12)
Gregory Kavka
Later Selves and Moral Principles
571(14)
Derek Parfit
Persons, Character, and Morality
585(12)
Bernard Williams
Suggestions for Further Reading
595(2)
Part XI Religion and Ethics 597(30)
Morality and Religion
600(2)
Plato
God and Immortality as Necessary Postulates of Morality
602(4)
Immanuel Kant
A Free Man's Worship
606(5)
Bertrand Russell
Religion and the Queerness of Morality
611(8)
George Mavrodes
Ethics Without God
619(8)
Kai Nielsen
Suggestions for Further Reading
625(2)
Part XII Contemporary Challenges to Classical Ethical Theory 627(104)
Sociobiology, Feminism, and the Question of Moral Responsibility
627(55)
Ethics and the Descent of Man
630(14)
Charles Darwin
Sociobiology and Ethics
644(3)
E. O. Wilson
Evolution and Ethics: The Sociobiological Approach
647(16)
Michael Ruse
Prospects for an Evolutionary Ethics
663(11)
Elliot Sober
The Law of the Jungle: Evolution and Morality
674(7)
J. L. Mackie
Suggestions for Further Reading on Sociobiology
681(1)
Feminist Ethics: The Ethics of Care
682(30)
In a Different Voice
682(6)
Carol Gilligan
Justice, Care, and Gender Bias
688(8)
Cheshire Calhoun
Is There a Female Morality?
696(16)
Michael Levin
Suggestions for Further Reading on Feminist Ethics
712(1)
The Challenges of Determinism to Moral Responsibility and Desert
712(19)
The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility
712(10)
Galen Strawson
Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility: A Response to Galen Strawson
722(7)
Louis Pojman
Suggestions for Further Reading on Moral Responsibility
729(2)
A Glossary of Ethical Terms 731

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