Theories of Ethics An Introduction to Moral Philosophy with a Selection of Classic Readings 1st Edition by Gordon Graham ISBN 0415999464 9780415999465

Theories of Ethics An Introduction to Moral Philosophy with a Selection of Classic Readings 1st Edition by Gordon Graham – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 0415999464, 9780415999465

Full download Theories of Ethics An Introduction to Moral Philosophy with a Selection of Classic Readings 1st Edition after payment

 

Product details:

ISBN 10: 0415999464 

ISBN 13: 9780415999465

Author: Gordon Graham

Theories of Ethics offers a comprehensive survey of the major schools and figures in moral philosophy, from Socrates to the present day. Written entirely in non-technical language, it aims to be introductory without being elementary, so that readers may quickly engage with selected readings from classic sources. The writings of major philosophers are explained in a structured exploration of recurrently important issues about right and wrong, good and evil, social relations and religious meaning.

This book is a radical revision of Gordon Graham’s Eight Theories of Ethics (Routledge 2004). A hallmark of the new edition is the incorporation of primary readings into the text itself, making the book suitable as a stand-alone publication for any ethics course or for anyone wanting to know the history and arguments or moral philosophy. Primary sources include extracts from Aristotle, Camus, Hume, Kant, Locke, Mill, Nietzsche, Plato, Reid, and Sartre, as well as Aldo Leopold and James Lovelock. The new edition also offers extended treatment of the objective/subjective debate, social contract theory, Nietzsche on morality, recent interpretations of Kant, the relation between morality and the existence of God, and a full chapter on environmental ethics.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Ethics, Truth and Reason
1.1 Right and Wrong
1.2 Relativism and Subjectivism
1.3 Proof and Probability
1.4 Moral Realism
1.5 Moral Rationalism
1.6 Objectivism

Chapter 2: Contractualism
2.1 Justice and Beneficence
2.2 Promises and Contracts
2.3 John Locke and “tacit” consent
2.4 John Rawls and “hypothetical” consent
2.5 T.M. Scanlon and unreasonable rejection
2.6 Bernard Mandeville and The Fable of the Bees

Chapter 3: Egoism
3.1 Egoism versus Altruism
3.2 Psychological Egoism
3.3 Rational Egoism
3.4 Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Morality
3.5 The Nietzschean ideal
3.6 Desires and interests

Chapter 4: Hedonism
4.1 Egoism and Hedonism
4.2 The Cyrenaics
4.3 The Epicureans
4.4 John Stuart Mill on Higher and Lower Pleasures
4.5 Sadistic pleasures
4.6 Aristotle on Pleasure

Chapter 5: Naturalism and Virtue
5.1 Eudaimonia and the Good
5.2 Human Nature as Rational Animal
5.3 Ethics, Ethology and Evolution
5.4 Virtue Theory
5.5 The Natural as a Norm
5.6 Is the “good for man” good?
5.7 Natural good and freedom

Chapter 6: Existentialism
6.1 Kierkegaard and the origins of existentialism
6.2 Sartre and Radical Freedom
6.3 Anguish and Bad Faith
6.4 The Absurdity of Existence
6.5 Acting in Good Faith
6.6 The Creation of Value
6.7 Radical Freedom

Chapter 7: Kantianism
7.1 Virtue and Happiness: “Faring Well” and “Doing Right”
7.2 Kant and the Good Will
7.3 David Hume and Practical Reason
7.5 Pure Practical Reason and the Moral Law
7.6 Universalizability

Chapter 8: Utilitarianism
8.1 Utility and the Greatest Happiness Principle
8.2 Jeremy Bentham
8.3 Egotism, Altruism and Generalized Benevolence
8.4 Act and Rule Utilitarianism
8.5 Utilitarianism and Consequentialism
8.6 Ascertaining Consequences
8.7 Assessment and Prescription
8.8 Consequentialism and Spontaneity
8.9 Act and Rule
8.10 Summary – Does the End Justify the Means?
8.11 The Nature of Happiness
8.12 Measuring Happiness
8.13 Distributing Happiness
8.14 Mill’s “proof” and preference utilitarianism
8.15 Motivation and the limitless moral code

Chapter 9: Ethics and Environment
9.1 Extending the Moral Sphere
9.2 Pollution, Sustainability and Climatic Change
9.3 The Land Ethic
9.4 Deep and Shallow Ecology
9.5 Wilderness
9.6 Nature and Gaia

Chapter 10: Ethics, Religion and the Meaning of Life
10.1 Morality and Ordinary Life
10.2 God and Good: Plato’s Euthyphro
10.3 Kant and the Harmony of Happiness and Virtue
10.4 Moral Action and Religious Practice
10.5 The Myth of Sisyphus
10.6 Subjective Value and Objective Purpose
10.7 Life, Time and Eternity
10.8 Worship of the Sacred

People also search for:

theories of ethics an introduction to moral philosophy
    
what are the moral theories in ethics
    
what are the ethical theories in ethics
    
what are the ethics theories
    
what are the 5 theories of ethics

Tags: Gordon Graham, Theories, Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Classic Readings