Ethical essays
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書誌事項
Ethical essays
（Avebury series in philosophy）
Avebury, 1993-1995
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- v. 2
- v. 3
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Includes index
内容説明・目次
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v. 1 ISBN 9781856284103
内容説明
One of two volumes of previously published articles, plus some new material. The two volumes cover a wide range of topics from moral philosophy, including utilitarianism, perfectionism, freedom of will, imperativism, ethics, morality and religion, the ethics of belief and the sanctity of life.
目次
Part 1 Utilitarianism: 1. Utilitarianism, universalisation and our duty to be just. 2. The place of moral goodness in a teleological ethical theory. 3. The expedient, the right and the just in Mill's utilitarianism. 4. Rule utilitarianism and cumulative-effect utilitarianism. 5. Utilitarianism, universalisation, heteronomy and necessity or unkantian ethics. 6. Utilitarianism and toleration. Part 2 Moral epistemology: 7. Empiricism in ethics. 8. The moral philosopher and the ordinary man. 9. Some comments on Professor Firth's ideal observer theory. 10. Ethical objectivism. 11. Ethical subjectivism. 12. Ethical naturalism. 13. Moral scepticism. 14. Logical positivism and ethics. Part 3 Imperativism: 15. Can ethics do without propositions? 16. Pure morality and impure truth. 17. Deontic logic and imperative logic. D. Freedom of the will. 18. Foreknowledge, will and fate. 19. Geach on God's alleged inability to do evil. 20. Geach on Harrison on Geach on God. 21. Anscombe, Davidson and Lehrer on a point about freedom. 22. Some reflections on hypothetical accounts of freedom of the will.
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v. 2 ISBN 9781856284110
内容説明
The second of two volumes of previously published articles, plus some new material. The two volumes cover a wide range of topics from moral philosophy, including utilitarianism, moral epistemology, imperativism, ethics, morality and religion, and the work of Kant, Hume and Hare.
目次
- A Morals and religion: 1 Christian virtues
- 2 Can I have a duty to believe in God?
- 3 Malt does more than Peter can or on behalf of the damned
- 4 This world and the next
- 5 Be ye therefore perfect or the ineradicability of sin
- 6 Some reflections on the ethics of knowledge and belief. B The moral philosophies of Kant, Hume and Hare: 7 Kant's examples of the first formulation of the categorical imperative
- 8 The categorical imperative
- 9 Hume's moral theory
- 10 Mackie's moral "scepticism"
- 11 Ethics and the archangelic prescriber. C Miscellaneous: 12 Self interest and duty
- 13 When is a principle a moral principle?
- 14 Moral talking and moral living or solace for obsessionals
- 15 The importance of being important. D Some moral tales: 16 Tom and Jerry or what price Pelagius?
- 17 A tale of two citizens
- 18 The island of the unborn
- 19 A model for administrators
- 20 The ideal marriage
- 21 War between the hemispheres
- 22 Utopias unlimited
- 23 Desert island deontology
- 24 Predicting the unpredictable
- 25 The real Oedipus
- 26 Outwitting the oracle
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v. 3 ISBN 9781856284837
内容説明
These essays cover a number of ethical and moral philosophical areas, including utilitarianism, ethical relativism, roles and rules, the relative interest of virtue vis a vis the weak and the strong, and imperativism.
目次
- Objections to cumulative effect utilitarianism
- sociobiology and ethics
- the wrongheadedness of ethical relativism
- does moral epistemology rest on a mistake?
- a moral wreck
- roles, rules and relationships
- is virtue in the interest of the stronger? or, the prevarications of Plato
- is eating people wrong?
- Hare's alleged imperativism.
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