Explorations in Ethics
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"David Kaspar is to be congratulated for putting together this bold and exciting collection of new explorations in our thinking about ethics."
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Sophie Grace Chappell
, Professor of Philosophy, The Open University, UK
"A terrific collection, full of insights and new perspectives on fundamental ethical questions. The volume strikes an excellent balance between emerging voices and established leaders in the field. It addresses an impressive range of issues, from ethical objectivity, the function of moral principles, the nature of well-being, the problem of moral weakness, to bioethics, the role of resentment in punishment, and even the corruptions of music."
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François Schroeter and Laura Schroeter
, The University of Melbourne, Australia
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David Kaspar teaches philosophy at St. John's University, New York, USA
Content
1. Introduction.- 2. The Euthyphro Problem Revisited.- 3. Realism, Objectivity, and Evaluation.- 4. The Modal Conception of Ideal Rational Agents: Objectively Ideal Not Merely Subjectively Ideal, Advisors Not Exemplars, Agentially Concerned Not Agentially Indifferent, Social Not Solitary, Self-and-Other-Regarding Not Wholly Self-Regarding.- 5. To Boldly Go Where No Man, or Woman, has Gone Before!.- 6. Well-Being as Harmony.- 7. On Moral Architecture.- 8. The Central Difficulty of the Moral Life.- 9. Desert-Sensitivity and Moral Evaluation.- 10. Interpersonal Invisibility and the Recognition of Other Persons.- 11. Censure, Sanction, and the Moral Psychology of Resentment and Punitiveness.- 12. A Natural Law Approach to Biomedical Ethics.- 13. The Corruptions of Music.