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Informationen zum Autor Miranda Fricker is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck, London. She is the author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2006), and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy (2007).Samuel Guttenplan is Professor in Philosophy at Birkbeck, London. He is author of Mind's Landscape (Blackwell Publishing, 2000), and The Languages of Logic (Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 1997), editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind (Blackwell Publishing, 1995) and executive editor of the journal Mind & Language. His book Objects of Metaphor was published in 2005. Klappentext This introductory text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings. It will inspire students to think about the distinctive nature of moral philosophy, and to draw comparisons between different traditions of thought, between ancient and modern philosophies, and between theoretical and literary writing about the place of value in human life.Each of the book's six chapters focuses on a particular theme: the nature of goodness, subjectivity and objectivity in ethical thinking, justice and virtue, moral motivation, the place of moral obligation, and the idea that literature can be a form of moral philosophy. The historical readings come from Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant and Mill; and the contemporary readings from Foot, Rawls, McDowell, Mackie, Nagel, Williams, Nussbaum and Gaita.The editors' introductions to the themes, and the interactive commentaries they provide for each reading, are intended to make Reading Ethics come as close as possible to a seminar in philosophy. Zusammenfassung This introductory text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings. It will inspire students to think about the distinctive nature of moral philosophy, and to draw comparisons between different traditions of thought, between ancient and modern philosophies, and between theoretical and literary writing about the place of value in human life.Each of the book's six chapters focuses on a particular theme: the nature of goodness, subjectivity and objectivity in ethical thinking, justice and virtue, moral motivation, the place of moral obligation, and the idea that literature can be a form of moral philosophy. The historical readings come from Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant and Mill; and the contemporary readings from Foot, Rawls, McDowell, Mackie, Nagel, Williams, Nussbaum and Gaita.The editors' introductions to the themes, and the interactive commentaries they provide for each reading, are intended to make Reading Ethics come as close as possible to a seminar in philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction.1. Goodness.Introduction.Introduction to Aristotle.Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (extracts from Book I).Commentary on Aristotle.Introduction to Mill.J. S. Mill, Utilitarianism (extracts from Ch. 2, 'What Utilitarianism Is').Commentary on Mill.Introduction to Foot.Philippa Foot, 'Utilitarianism and the Virtues' (extracts).Commentary on Foot.2. Justice.Introduction.Introduction to Plato (and Socrates).Plato, Republic (extracts from Books II-IV).Commentary on Plato.Introduction to Rawls.John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (extracts from Ch.1, 'Justice as Fairness').Commentary on Rawls.3. Reasons for Action.Introduction.Introduction to Hume.David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (extracts from II.III.iii, 'Of the Influencing Motives of the Will', and III.I.i, 'Moral Distinctions Not Derived from Reason').Commentary on Hume.Introduction to McDowell.John McDowell, 'Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical Imperatives?' (extracts).Commentary on McDowell.4. Subjectivism and Objectivism.Introduction to the Problem.Introduction to Mackie.J. L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right ...
