Ethics

NOTE EDITORE

The most comprehensive collection of its kind, Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, Fourth Edition, is essentially three books in one. Its sixty-seven selections are organized into three parts--Historical Sources, Modern Ethical Theory, and Contemporary Moral Problems. Wherever possible, each reading is printed in its entirety. The fourth edition features nine new essays and extended selections from the work of Nietzsche and Thomas Hobbes.

SOMMARIO

*=New to this edition; Preface: ; Introduction: ; I. HISTORICAL SOURCES; Introduction, Alasdair MacIntyre; 1. Plato; Euthyphro: ; Defence of Socrates: ; Crito: ; Phaedo (115d-118): ; Republic (selections): ; 2. Aristotle; Nicomachean Ethics (selections): ; 3. Epicurus; Letter to Menoeceus: ; Leading Doctrines: ; 4. Epictetus; Enchiridion: ; 5. Augustine; Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love (selections): ; 6. Thomas Aquinas; Summa Contra Gentiles (selections): ; 7. Thomas Hobbes; Leviathan (selections): ; 8. Joseph Butler; Fifteen Sermons (selections): ; 9. David Hume; * A Treatise of Human Nature (selections): ; An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: ; (selections); 10. Immanuel Kant; Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: ; 11. Jeremy Bentham; An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and: ; Legislation (selections); 12. John Stuart Mill; Utilitarianism: ; 13. Friedrich Nietzsche; On the Genealogy of Morals (selections): ; 14. Albert Camus; The Myth of Sisyphus (selections): ; 15. Jean-Paul Sartre; Existentialism Is a Humanism: ; II. MODERN ETHICAL THEORY; Introduction, James Rachels; 16. G.E. Moore; Principia Ethica (selections): ; 17. H.A. Prichard; Does Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?: ; 18. W.D. Ross; The Right and the Good (selections): ; 19. A.J. Ayer; Language, Truth, and Logic (selections): ; 20. C.L. Stevenson; The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms: ; 21. R.M. Hare; Freedom and Reason (selections): ; 22. Kurt Baier; The Point of View of Morality: ; 23. G.E.M. Anscombe; Modern Moral Philosophy: ; 24. J. L. Mackie; * Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong: ; 25. John Rawls; A Theory of Justice (selections): ; 26. David Gauthier; Why Contractarianism?: ; 27. Joel Feinberg; Psychological Egoism: ; 28. Philippa Foot; Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives: ; 29. Onora O'Neill; Consistency in Action: ; 30. Ruth Barcan Marcus; Moral Dilemmas and Consistency: ; 31. Richard B. Brandt; Some Merits of One Form of Rule Utilitarianism: ; 32. Bernard Williams; A Critique of Utilitarianism: ; 33. Joel Feinberg; The Nature and Value of Rights: ; 34. Gilbert Harman; The Nature of Morality (selections): ; 35. Nicholas L. Sturgeon; Moral Explanations: ; 36. Allan Gibbard; Moral Judgment and the Acceptance of Norms: ; 37. John McDowell; * Values and Secondary Qualities: ; 38. Christine Korsgaard; * Skepticism about Practical Reason: ; 39. James Rachels; The Challenge of Cultural Relativism: ; 40. Martha Nussbaum; Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach: ; 41. Virginia Held; Reason, Gender, and Moral Theory: ; 42. Susan Wolf; Moral Saints: ; 43. Thomas Nagel; Moral Luck: ; III. CONTEMPORARY MORAL PROBLEMS; Introduction, Peter Singer; 44. Judith Jarvis Thomson; A Defense of Abortion: ; 45. Mary Anne Warren; On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion: ; 46. Don Marquis; An Argument that Abortion is Wrong: ; 47. Rosalind Hursthouse; Virtue Theory and Abortion: ; 48. James Rachels; Active and Passive Euthanasia: ; 49. Philippa Foot; Killing and Letting Die: ; 50. Peter Singer; Famine, Affluence, and Morality: ; 51. John Arthur; Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code: ; 52. Tom Regan; The Case for Animal Rights: ; 53. Carl Cohen; The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research: ; 54. Elliot Sober; * Philosophical Problems for Environmentalism: ; 55. Henry Shue; * Torture: ; 56. Daniel J. Hill; * Ticking Bombs, Torture, and the Analogy with Self-Defense: ; 57. John M. Taurek; Should the Numbers Count?: ; 58. Derek Parfit; Innumerate Ethics: ; 59. Judith Jarvis Thomson; The Trolley Problem: ; 60. Thomas Nagel; * Death: ; 61. Richard Taylor; * The Meaning of Life:

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• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780195335965
• Dimensioni: 234x189 mm.
• Formato: Paperback
• Pagine Arabe: 954