
Ethics
Allen Phillips-Griffiths(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 9. June 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
430 pages
978-1-009-10771-6 (ISBN)
Description
Ethical questions are often associated with practical dilemmas: questions in morality, in other words. This volume, by contrast, asks questions about morality: what it is, and to what it owes its precarious authority over us. The focus on metaethics is sustained throughout, via a wide range of philosophical perspectives. Distinguished luminaries who include R. M. Hare and Bernard Williams address keenly debated issues such as what constitutes morality in politics; the relationship between education and ethical standards; and whether or not morality can indeed be defined at all. As Nikhil Krishnan writes in his elegant Foreword, 'The plain-speaking, essayistic grace of these essays, speaks nevertheless of the possibility of moral philosophy, written with an eye to a listener, very possibly not a professional philosopher, who has the right to say, ''This is all very well, your neat little theory, but it doesn't ring true. Things are more complicated than that.'''
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
455 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-10771-6 (9781009107716)
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Persons
Editor
Trinity College, Cambridge
Foreword
Robinson College, Cambridge
Content
Foreword Nikhil Krishnan; Preface: 1. Objective prescriptions R. M. Hare; 2. Integrity and self-Identity Stewart R. Sutherland; 3. The better part Stephen R. L. Clark; 4. Invincible knowledge Renford Bambrough; 5. Emmanuel levinas: responsibility and election Catherine Chalier; 6. Ethical absolutism and education Peter Gardner; 7. Morals and politics Anthony Quinton; 8. Duties and virtues Onora O'neill; 9. The definition of morality John Skorupski; 10. Ethics, fantasy and self-transformation Jean Grimshaw; 11. How we do ethics now James Griffin; 12. Justice without constitutive Luck S. L. Hurley; 13. Who needs ethical knowledge? Bernard Williams; 14. Institutional ethics Marcus G. Singer; References.
