Instilling Ethics

by Thompson, Norma; Salkever, Stephen; Nederman, Cary; Macy, Jeff; Sullivan, Vickie; Orwin, Clifford; Neiman, Susan; Allman, Dwight; Clark, Stephen R.L.; White, Stephen K.; Ruprecht, Louis A., Jr.; Reynolds, Glenn Harlan; Westfall, Carrol William; Fischer, M

• ISBN13: 9780847697458
• ISBN10: 0847697452
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-21
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Instilling Ethics casts a fresh light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our time: ethics. Norma Thompson has compiled essays from prominent scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities of ethical practices today. Instilling Ethics offers a new way of connecting today's ethics to the great ethical sources of the past--classical, medieval, and early modern--and presents a wise and witty critique of the current practice of professional ethics.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xv
Part One: Sources of Ethical Reflection
Aristotle and the Ethics of Natural Questions	3	(14)
Stephen G. Salkever
War, Peace, and Republican Virtue: Patriotism and the Neglected Legacy of Cicero	17	(14)
Cary J. Nederman
Medieval Jewish and Islamic Themis: Ethics and Religion and Philosophical Attitudes toward Ethics	31	(8)
Jeffrey Macy
In Defense of the City: Machiavelli's Bludgeoning of the Classical and Christian Traditions	39	(24)
Vickie B. Sullivan
Part Two: Modernity and Problems of Ethical Reflection
Rousseau on the Sources of Ethics	63	(22)
Clifford Orwin
Without Foundation: A New View of Kant	85	(12)
Susan Neiman
History as Psychology/Morality as Pathology: Nietzsche and the Ethical Tradition	97	(22)
Dwight David Allman
Deconstructing Darwin	119	(22)
Stephen R. L. Clark
Ontology and Ethical ``Foundations'' in Taylor	141	(26)
Stephen K. White
Part Three: Instilling Ethics Today
Are We Living in an Ethical Age?	167	(12)
Louis A. Ruprecht Jr.
Ethics Reform: A Study in Failure	179	(16)
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Architecture as Ethical Conduct	195	(12)
Carroll William Westfall
The Reality of Information Objects	207	(8)
Michael J. Fischer
Full Circle: The Inherent Tension in Ethics from Plato to Plato	215	(8)
Stephanie A. Nelson
Afterword
The Importance of ``Instilling Ethics''	223	(6)
Walter Nicgorski
Index	229	(8)
About the Contributors	237