The moral philosophers : an introduction to ethics
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The moral philosophers : an introduction to ethics
Oxford University Press, 1998
2nd ed
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text adopts a historical approach to moral philosophy, taking in chronological sequence some of the major ethical philosophers of the past. Richard Norman introduces the thought of each figure as a coherent and comprehensive ethical theory, exploring their richness and complexity. Each theory is critically examined and presented as an attempt to surmount some of the deficiencies of its predecessors - and through this critical process the book moves towards some concluding suggestions about the content of an acceptable ethical theory. This edition includes four new chapters - one on Nietzsche, and three which provide substantially extended coverage of 20th-century moral philosophy, including discussions of contemporary utilitarianism, rights-based ethical theories, contractarian ethics and virtue ethics, and recent debates between realism and anti-realism in ethics.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - ethics and its history. Part I The ancients: Plato - the health of the personality
- Aristotle - the rationality of the emotions
- egoism and altruism. Part II The moderns: Hume - sympathy
- Kant - respect for persons
- Mill - the greatest happiness
- Hegelian ethics - self-realization
- Nietzsche - beyond morality. Part III Contemporary themes: facts and values
- utilitarianism and its rivals
- the ethical world.
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