Ethics

by Frankena, William K.

• ISBN13: 9780132904780
• ISBN10: 0132904780
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-11-01
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

An introduction to the standard material of ethics.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Morality and Moral Philosophy	1	(11)
An Example of Ethical Thinking (Socrates)	2	(2)
The Nature of Ethics or Moral Philosophy	4	(1)
The Nature of Morality	5	(4)
Factors in Morality	9	(1)
Kinds of Normative Judgment	9	(2)
Program for Rest of Book	11	(1)
Egoistic and Deontological Theories	12	(22)
The Primary Question	12	(1)
Importance of Factual Knowledge and Conceptual Clarity	13	(1)
Prevailing Rules as a Standard	13	(1)
Teleological Theories	14	(2)
Deontological Theories	16	(1)
Ethical Egoism	17	(3)
Psychological Egoism	20	(3)
Act-deontological Theories	23	(2)
Rule-deontological Theories	25	(3)
The Divine Command Theory	28	(2)
Kant's Theory	30	(4)
Utilitarianism, Justice, and Love	34	(27)
Utilitarianism	34	(1)
Act-utilitarianism	35	(2)
General Utilitarianism	37	(2)
Rule-utilitarianism	39	(4)
My Proposed Theory of Obligation	43	(2)
The Principle of Beneficence	45	(3)
The Principle of Justice: Equality	48	(4)
Summary of My Theory of Obligation	52	(1)
The Problem of Conflict	52	(1)
A Problem of Application	53	(1)
Duties to Self	54	(1)
Are Any Rules Absolute?	55	(1)
The Ethics of Love	56	(3)
Further Problems	59	(2)
Moral Value and Responsibility	61	(18)
Moral and Nonmoral Senses of ``Good,''	62	(1)
Morality and Cultivation of Traits	62	(1)
Ethics of Virtue	63	(2)
On Being and Doing: Morality of Traits vs. Morality of Principles	65	(2)
Moral Ideals	67	(1)
Dispositions to Be Cultivated	68	(2)
Two Questions	70	(1)
Moral Responsibility	71	(2)
Free Will and Responsibility	73	(6)
Intrinsic Value and the Good Life	79	(16)
Preliminary Remarks	79	(1)
``Good'' and Its Senses	80	(3)
Theories about What Is Good as an End: Hedonism and Non-hedonism	83	(2)
The First Line of Debate	85	(2)
The Second Line of Debate	87	(2)
Some Conclusions	89	(3)
The Good Life	92	(3)
Meaning and Justification	95	(22)
Meta-ethics and Its Questions	95	(1)
Theories of Justification	96	(1)
Definist Theories, Naturalistic and Metaphysical	97	(5)
Intuitionism	102	(3)
Noncognitive or Nondescriptivist Theories	105	(2)
Approach to an Adequate Theory	107	(2)
Relativism	109	(1)
A Theory of Justification	110	(3)
The Moral Point of View	113	(1)
Why Be Moral?	114	(3)
For Future Reading	117	(4)
Index	121