Interventions in ethics
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Interventions in ethics
（Swansea studies in philosophy）
Macmillan, 1992
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Professor Phillips argues that human beings need "Interventions in Ethics" to counteract our tendancies to generalize about moral issues. There is a gap between the tidiness of ethical systems and the hetrogeneity of morals. We need not only to criticize attempted definitions of the essence of morality, but also to give up the search for such an essence. In this collection of essays, written between 1965 and 1990, this need is explored in relation to such issues as the nature of moral endeavour; the request for a justification of moral endeavour; the appeal to human flourishing; the nature of the good life; the nature of moral endeavour; the appeal to human flourishing; the nature of the good life; the nature of moral change; and moral relativity. Professor Phillips argues his case in relation to the work of contemporary philosophers including A.G.N.Amcombe, Annette Baier, Max Black, Cora Diamond, Thomas Nagel, Bernard Williams and Peter Winch.
Table of Contents
- On morality's having a point
- moral practices and Anscombe's grocer
- the possibilities of moral advice
- after virtue
- the presumption of theory
- what can we expect from ethics?
- not in front of the children - children and the hetrogenity of morals
- does it pay to be good?
- in search of the moral "must" - Mrs Foot's fugitive thought
- do moral considerations override others?
- an argument from extreme cases?
- morality and purpose
- how lucky can you get?
- some limits to moral endeavour
- self-knowledge and pessimism
- my neighbour and my neighbours
- philosophy and the heterogeneity of the human
- necessary reward, necesary punishment and character.
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