Ranging from moral realism to virtue ethics, this superb volume presents a complete state--of--the--art survey of ethical theory. Written by an international assembly of leading moral philosophers, each of the twenty--one newly--commissioned papers develop the main tenets, arguments, themes, and problems of the main normative and meta--ethical philosophical outlooks.
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"The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory is, for its size, perhaps the best single--volume resource guide to contemporary ethical theory." Robert B. Louden, APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Spring 2001.
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Höhe: 243 mm
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978-0-631-20119-9 (9780631201199)
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Hugh LaFollette is Marie and Leslie E. Cole Chair in Ethics, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. He is author of The Practice of Ethics (Blackwell, 2007) and Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality (Blackwell, 1995), co--author of Brute Science: The Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation (1996), and editor of several other volumes, including Ethics in Practice: An Anthology (third edition, Blackwell, 2007).
Contributors. Introduction. Part I: META--ETHICS. The status of ethics. 1. Moral Realism (Michael Smith). 2. Relativism (Simon Blackburn). What Grounds ethical claims?. 3. Divine Command Theory (Philip L. Quinn). 4. Naturalism (James Rachels). 5. Moral Intuitions (Jeff McMahan). Against Ethical Theory. 6. The End to Ethics (John D. Caputo). Psychology and Ethics. 7. Psychological Egoism (Elliott Sober). 8. Moral Psychology (Laurence Thomas). Part II: Normative Ethics. Consequentialism. 9. Act--Utilitarianism (R. G. Frey). 10. Rule--Consequentialism (Brad Hooker). Deontology. 11. Nonconsequentialism (F.M. Kamm). 12. Kantianism (Thomas E. Hill, Jr). 13. Contractarianism (Geoffrey Sayre--McCord). 14. Intuitionism (David McNaughton). 15. Rights (L.W. Sumner). 16. Libertarianism (Jan Narveson). Alternatie Views. 17. Virtue Ethics (Michael Slote). 18. Feminist Ethics (Alison M. Jaggar). 19. Continental Ethics (William R. Schroeder). 20. Pragmatic Ethics (Hugh LaFollette). 21. Toward Reconciliation in Ethics (James P. Sterba). Index.
