Morality and the Good Life

by Carson, Thomas L.; Moser, Paul K.

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9780195105384
ISBN10:
0195105389
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 1997-01-02
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This comprehensive survey of contemporary ethical theory includesthirty-four selections on morality and the theory of value. Emphasizing valuetheory, meta-ethics, and normative ethics, it is non-technical and accessible toa wide range of readers, including advanced undergraduates in variousdisciplines. Selections are organized under six main topics: (1) Concepts ofGoodness, (2) What Things are Good?, (3) Virtues and Ethics, (4) Realism vs.Anti-Realism, (5) Value and Obligation, and (6) The Value and Meaning of Life. Asubstantial general introduction featuring explanatory summaries of all theentries and an extensive topical bibliography on morality and the theory ofvalue enhance the volume's research and pedagogical utility. The most up-to-dateand accessible survey of its kind, Morality and the Good Life is ideal foradvanced undergraduate and graduate courses in contemporary ethical theory,moral philosophy, and theory of value.

Introduction
Concepts of Goodnessa
Cognitivist Approaches
The Subject-Matter of Ethics
Ethical Absolutism and the Ideal Observer
Approaches: Defense and Criticism
Critique of Ethics
Critique of Ayer
Reply to Critics
Expressivism
Selections from Descriptive Meaning and Principles
Moral BeliefsC. Kinds of Goodness
Two Distinctions in Goodness
What Things are good?
Defense and Criticism
Ultimate Good
Value and PleasureB. The Desire-Satisfaction Theory: Defense and Criticism
The Good of Man
Desire and the Human GoodC. Objectivist Theories
The Ideal
What things are Good? and Moral Goodness
Perfectionism
What Makes Someone's Life Go Best?
Virtues and Ethics
Modern Moral Philosophy
Virtues and Vices
The Nature of the Virtues
Realism VS. Anti-realism
The Subjectivity of Values
Values and Secondary Qualities
Errors and the Phenomenology of Value
Moral Explanations
Value and Obligation
Results the Test of Right and Wrong
Act-Utilitarianism and Rule-Utilitarianism
The Real and Alleged Problems of Utilitarianism
What Makes Right Acts Right?
Obligation and Motivation in Recent Moral Philosophy
A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical Wrongness
The Value and Meaning Of Life
My Confession
Meaning and Value of Life
Morality and the Meaning of Life: Some First Thoughts
Goods and Lives
Bibliography on Contemporary Ethical Theory
Index
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