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Zusatztext "This new anthology is the best textbook in moral theory by far. The selections are a judicious combination of the classic and the new! carefully and skillfully edited." - David McNaughton! Florida State University! USA"The text is well structured and the readings well chosen: they are important! interesting! varied! popular and up-to-date. The book serves as a fine representation of essential work in analytic moral philosophy." - Helena de Bres! Wellesley College! USA"These readings have clearly been selected with great care! and Sher's introductions provide just the right amount of guidance and narrative coherence. The result is an impressively wide-ranging yet student-friendly textbook! one of the best ethics anthologies out there." - Neal Tognazzini! College of William and Mary! USA Informationen zum Autor George Sher is Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, USA. He is the author Desert (1987), Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism and Politics (1997), Approximate Justice: Studies in Non-Ideal Theory (1997), In Praise of Blame (2006), and Who Knew? Responsibility Without Awareness (2009). He is also a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton Center for Human Values. Klappentext Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory is an outstanding anthology of the most important topics, theories and debates in ethics, compiled by one of the leading experts in the field. It includes sixty-six extracts covering the central domains of ethics: why be moral? the meaning of moral language morality and objectivity consequentialism deontology virtue and character value and well-being moral psychology applications: including abortion, famine relief and consent. Included are both classical extracts from Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant and Mill, as well as contemporary classics from philosophers such as Thomas Nagel, Thomas Scanlon, Martha Nussbaum, Derek Parfit, and Peter Singer. A key feature of the anthology is that it covers the perennial topics in ethics as well as very recent ones, such as moral psychology, responsibility and experimental philosophy. Each section is introduced and placed in context by the editor, making this an ideal anthology for anyone studying ethics or ethical theory. Zusammenfassung Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory is an outstanding anthology of sixty-six of the most important topics, theories and debates in ethics, compiled by one of the leading experts in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction George Sher Part 1: Why be Moral? 1. The Ring of Gyges Plato 2. Psychological Egoism Joel Feinberg 3. Morality and Self-Interest Thomas Hobbes 4. Morality and Advantage David Gauthier 5. Selections from The Sources of Normativity Christine Korsgaard 6. Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives Philippa Foot 7. Moral Rationalism Russ Shafer-Landau Part 2: The Meaing of Moral Language 8. Morality and Natural Sentiment David Hume 9. Goodness as Simple and Indefinable G. E. Moore 10. The Emotive Theory of Ethics A. J. Ayer 11. Selections from Ruling Passions Simon Blackburn 12. A Critique of Non-Cognitivism, selection from Moral Realism: A Defense Russ Shafer-Landau 13. Euthyphro Plato 14. A New Divine Command Theory Robert Merrihew Adams Part 3: Morality, Objectivity, and Knowledge 15. The Challenge of Cultural Relativism James Rachels 16. Ethics and Observation Gilbert Harman 17. Moral Explanations Nicholas Sturgeon 18. The Subjectivity of Value J. L. Mackie 19. Selections from The View from Nowhere Thomas Nagel 20. Selections from Moral Skepticisms Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 21. But I Could Be Wrong...
