Moral thinking and philosophical questions -- Authoritarian ethics and subjectivist ethics -- Some classic ethical theories -- Psychological egoism and hedonism -- Meta-ethical theories -- Hume's gap and the naturalistic fallacy -- Relativism in general -- Descriptive relativism and meta-ethical subjectivism -- Genetic accounts which debunk morality -- Descriptive relativism and varieties of normative relativism -- Whether meta-ethical subjectivism has practical consequences -- Methods of justifying a normative ethical theory
Summary
The Nature of Moral Thinking is an introductory text to the questions of ethics, offering a solid philosophical and historical basis for understanding the central issues. Francis Snare discusses in detail the classical philosophical arguments of Plato and Butler in relation to relativism and subjectivism and treats Marx and Nietzsche in regard to the origins and explanation of morality
Analysis
Ethics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and index
