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This is the first full-scale monograph on the moral philosophy of W. D. Ross. It shows why Ross is admired as a major figure in ethics. He provided one of the most distinctive and powerful theories in the field, and Robert Audi sets out and explains Ross's comprehensive ethics, including his theory of obligation-of duty and the right-and his theory of value, of the good and the bad. Ross is conceptually sophisticated, rich in ideas, and historically informed. He reflects the best in Aristotle's ethics and is an astute critic of Kant, Mill, Moore, and others.
Audi clarifies Ross's substantive moral views, from their metaphysical grounds to their practical applications, and explains how Ross illuminates much in contemporary ethics, theoretical and applied-intuition, reflective equilibrium, defeasibility, and many distinctions: between grounds and constitution, basic and consequential obligations, commensurability and combinability, moral stringency and moral predominance, enumerative and intuitive induction, rightness and creditworthiness, and many others.
The Intuitionist Ethics of W. D. Ross, presents Ross as demonstrating the powers of intuition in moral practice, recognizing the diversity of standards for determining duty, and preserving the plurality of values in moral reflection. He is a judicious exemplar of full-scale intuitionism, as both a method of moral thinking and a major option in doing and teaching ethics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Part One:
Ross's Comprehensive Theory of Obligation: Metaethics, Moral Epistemology, and Standards of Duty Chapter 1: Semantic, Conceptual, and Epistemological Preliminaries Chapter 2: The Grounds and Scope of Moral Obligation Chapter 3: The Determination of Final Obligation Chapter 4: Self-Evidence and General Moral Knowledge Chapter 5: The Metaphysics of Rossian Intuitionism Chapter 6: The Scope and Limits of the Duty of Beneficence
Part Two:
Ross's Theories of Value and Moral Creditworthiness Chapter 7: The Concept of Intrinsic Goodness Chapter 8: Ross's Fourfold Taxonomy of the Intrinsically Good Chapter 9: The Measurability of Intrinsic Goodness Chapter 10: Moral Goodness, Moral Creditworthiness, and Virtue
Part Three: Challenges and Extensions Chapter 11: The Comprehensiveness of Ross's Axiological Resources Chapter 12: Unifying Elements in Rossian Intuitionism Conclusion
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Robert Audi is an internationally distinguished philosopher and author of numerous papers and many books spanning ethics and political philosophy, epistemology, the theory of human action, and the philosophy of religion. He is a past president of the American Philosophical association, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and currently John A. Obrien Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame.
