The Ethics Toolkit A Compendium of Ethical Concepts and Methods

by Baggini, Julian; Fosl, Peter S.

• ISBN13: 9781405132312
• ISBN10: 1405132310
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-13
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Ethics Toolkit provides an accessible and engaging compendium of concepts, theories, and strategies that encourage students and advanced readers to think critically about ethics so that they can engage intelligently in ethical study, thought, and debate. Written by the authors of the popular The Philosophers' Toolkit (Blackwell, 2001); Baggini is also a renowned print and broadcast journalist, and a prolific author of popular philosophy books Uses clear and accessible language appropriate for use both inside and beyond the classroom Enlivened through the use of real-world and hypothetical examples Cross-referencing of entries helps to connect and contrast ideas Features lists of prominent ethics organizations and useful websites Encourages readers to think critically about ethics and teaches them how to engage intelligently in ethical study, thought, and debate

Author Biography

Julian Baggini is editor and co-publisher of The Philosophers' Magazine. He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books on philosophy. His journalism also appears in newspapers and magazines such as the Guardian, Times Higher Education Supplement, and Times Educational Supplement. His PhD was awarded by University College London in 1996.

Peter S. Fosl is Professor of Philosophy at Transylvania University in Lexington, KY, and recipient of the 2006 Acorn Award for Kentucky's outstanding university teacher of the year. Educated at Bucknell University, Emory University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Edinburgh, Fosl is a contributing editor to The Philosophers' Magazine and co-editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes on British philosophers. He has published on Hume, skepticism, the philosophy of religion, and topics in the history of philosophy.

Table of Contents

The Grounds of Ethics

Aesthetics

Agency

Authority

Autonomy

Care

Character

Conscience

Evolution

Finitude

Flourishing

Harmony

Interest

Intuition

Merit

Natural Law

Need

Pain and Pleasure

Revelation

Rights

Sympathy

Tradition and History

Frameworks for Ethics

Consequentialism

Contractarianism

Cultural Critique

Deontological Ethics

Discourse Ethics

Divine Command

Egoism

Hedonism

Naturalism

Particularism

Perfectionism

Pragmatism

Rationalism

Relativism

Subjectivism

Virtue Ethics

Central Concepts in Ethics

Absolute/Relative

Act/Rule

Bad/Evil

Beneficence/Non-maleficence

Cause/Reason

Cognitivism/Non-cognitivism

Commission/Omission

Consent

Facts/Values

The Golden Mean

Honor/Shame

Individual/Collective

Injury

Intentions/Consequences

Internalism/Externalism

Intrinsic/Instrumental Value

Legal/Moral

Liberation/Oppression

Means/Ends

Metaethics/Normative Ethics

Moral Subjects/Moral Agents

Prudence

Public/Private

Stoic Cosmopolitanism

Assessment, Judgment and Critique

Alienation

Authenticity

Consistency

Counterexamples

Fairness

Fallacies

Impartiality and Objectivity

The "is/ought gap"

Justice and Lawfulness

Just War Theory

Paternalism

Proportionality

Reflective Equilibrium

Restoration

Sex and Gender

Speciesism

Thought Experiments

Universalizability

The Limits of Ethics

Akrasia

Amoralism

Bad Faith and Self-Deception

Casuistry and Rationalisation

Fallenness

False Consciousness

Free Will and Determinism

Moral Luck

Nihilism

Pluralism

Power

Radical Particularity

The Separateness of Persons

Skepticism

Standpoint

Supererogation

Tragedy

Appendix: Ethics

Resources

Name Index

Subject Index

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