| Description |
ix, 314 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Routledge contemporary readings in philosophy |
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Routledge contemporary readings in philosophy.
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| Contents |
Moral philosophy / Harry J. Gensler -- The history of ethics / James C. Swindal and Earl W. Spurgin -- Part I. Initial approaches to morality : cultural relativitivism, subjectivity and supernaturalism -- Defending cultural relativism / Ruth Benedict -- Against cultural relativism / Harry J. Gensler and Mary Grace Tokmenko -- Ethical claims describe feelings / David Hume -- Ethical claims are objective / Thomas Nagel -- The moral law is from God / C. S. Lewis -- Love of God and neighbor / The Bible -- Part II. Further approaches to morality : intuitionism, emotivism and prescriptivism -- Irreducible ethical truths / G. E. Moore -- Objective prima facie duties / W. D. Ross -- Ethical claims express feelings / A. J. Ayer -- Values are subjective / J. L. Mackie -- Universal prescriptions / R. M. Hare -- An existential ethics / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Part III. Ethical methodology : justifying moral claims, the golden rule, and two applications -- Moral justification / William K. Frankena -- Discourse ethics / Jurgen Habermas -- Ethics is based on reason / Immanuel Kant -- The golden rule and society / Joyce Hertzler -- The golden rule and religion / Paul Ricoeur -- Master and slave morality / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Racial segregation / Martin Luther King -- Moral education / Lawrence Kohlberg -- Part IV. Normative theory, consequentialism, nonconsequentialism, distribute justice and virtue -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- Defending utilitarianism / J. J. C. Smart -- Against utilitarianism / Bernard Williams -- Rule utilitarianism / Richard B. Brandt -- Objective prima facie duties / W. D. Ross -- Goods and absolutes / John Finnis -- A theory of justice / John Rawls -- Justice and goods / Robert Nozick -- Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle -- Virtue ethics / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Rudiments of virtue ethics / Michael Slote -- Part V. Applied ethics : abortion and other issues -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Pro-life feminism / Sydney Callahan -- Animal liberation / Peter Singer -- A Kantian approach to famine relief / Onora O'Neill -- The land ethic / J. Baird Callicott |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ethics.
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| Author |
Gensler, Harry J., 1945-
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Swindal, James.
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Spurgin, Earl W.
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| LC no. |
2003058655 |
| ISBN |
0415256801 cased |
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041525681X paperback |
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