Ethics and qualities of life
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Ethics and qualities of life
Oxford University Press, 2007
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Bibliography: p.191-194
Includes index
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内容説明
Ethics and Qualities of Life looks at what enters into ethical judgment and choice. Interpretation of a case and of what the options are is always a factor, as is a sense of the possible values at stake. Intuitions also enter in, but often are unreliable. For a long time it seemed only fair that oldest sons inherited, and struck few people as unfair that women were not allowed to attend universities. A moral judgment is putatively part of a moral order in a
society that any reasonable person would accept. But what counts as "reasonable" is generally contestable.
The unreliability of intuitions leads naturally to ethical theory. Kantian, contractualist, and consequentialist theories all have some important truth in them, but not the whole truth. Contractualism lacks the resources required for a fully determinate account of what counts as "reasonable". Broad general rules are important to Kant and are at the center of everyday morality. But can Kantian ethics explain why they have to have this central role? Our evolving social contract now contains
elements (e.g. the rejection of racism and sexism) that once would have seemed counter-intuitive to most people. But could consequentialists have predicted with entire confidence the consequences of social changes that we now think were desirable? The last part of this book contains a double argument.
One is that ethical theory is employed by humans in a state of semi-ignorance of relevant factors, grasping at likely truths and evolved intuitions. The other is that consequentialist considerations have a major role at the fundamental level, but much more in justification or criticism than in ethical discovery.
目次
Introduction
Part I: Factors in Ethical Judgment: From Atomistic Moral Decision to Goods, Construals, Character, and the Social Implications of Moral Judgments
1: Existential Choices and Dislocations
2: Construals, Valencing
3: The Relevance of Construal and Valencing to Good Choice
4: The Importance of Character
5: Personal Morality and Its Social Implications
6: Steps to Theory
Part II
7: The Bases of Ethical Theory
8: The Need for a Moral Order
9: The Logic of Consequentialism
10: Some Difficulties of Consequentialism
11: The Evolution of Ethical Theories
12: A Modulated Case for the Primacy of Qualities of Life
Appendix: Virtue Ethics
Index
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