
Ethics: An Overview
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Thematically structured, the text provides a historical overview of the subject and a comprehensive introduction to the main branches of ethics: meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied ethics. The book also includes coverage of key aspects of value-theory and key issues concerning agency and moral responsibility. It applies ethics to contemporary issues such as climate change, the environment, development, poverty and war. Crucially, the book encourages students to do ethics for themselves, equipping the reader with a wide-ranging grasp of the discipline in all its central areas of contemporary study and reflection.
Robin Attfield's cogent and thorough analysis is supplemented by student-friendly features, including chapter summaries, study questions, exercises, and a comprehensive guide to further reading and other resources.
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Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. History of Ethics
Aristotle on Eudaemonia and Virtue
Some Themes from Hobbes and Hume
Some Kantian Themes
John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism
2. Value-Theory and the Good Life
Pleasure, Happiness and Flourishing
Moral Standing, Value and Intrinsic Value
Worthwhile Life, Self-Respect and Meaningful Work
The Good Life, Needs, Virtue and Morality
3. Normative Ethics
Moral Standing, Value, Rights and Rightness
Consequentialism and Its Critics
Deontology, Contractarianism and Consequentialism
Virtue Ethics
Practice-Consequentialism and Virtue-Consequentialism
4. Applied Ethics
The Re-emergence of Applied Ethics
Medical Ethics
Animal Ethics
Development Ethics
Environmental Ethics
The Ethics of War
5. Meta-Ethics
Non-cognitivism, Projectivism and Prescriptivism
'Good', 'Ought' and Morality
Cognitivism and Realism
Internalism, Externalism and Practicality
Naturalism and Non-naturalism
6. Free Will and Responsibility
Responsibility, Character and Determinism
Laws of Nature, 'Ought' and 'Can'
Evolution, Randomness, 'Could' and 'Would'
The Future Is Open
Index
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