| Description |
xxiv, 850 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge philosophy companions
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Routledge philosophy companions.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. History -- 1. Ethical thought in China / Yang Xiao -- 2. Ethical thought in India / Stephen R.L. Clark -- 3. Socrates and Plato / Richard Kraut -- 4. Aristotle / Christopher Taylor -- 5. Later ancient ethics / A.A. Long -- 6. The Arabic tradition / Peter Adamson -- 7. Early modern natural law / Knud Haakonssen -- 8. Hobbes / Bernard Gert -- 9. Ethics and reason / Mike LeBuffe -- 10. Ethics and sentiment: Shaftesbury and Hutcheson / Michael B. Gill -- 11. Hume / James A. Harris -- 12. Adam Smith / Craig Smith -- 13. Utilitarianism to Bentham / Frederick Rosen -- 14. Kant / Thomas E. Hill Jr. -- 15. Hegel / Kenneth R. Westphal -- 16. John Stuart Mill / Henry West -- 17. Sidgwick, Green, and Bradley / T.H. Irwin -- 18. Nietzsche / Maudemarie Clark -- 19. Pragmatist moral philosophy / Alan J. Ryan -- 20. Existentialism / Jonathan Webber -- 21. Heidegger /Stephen Mulhall -- Part II. Meta-ethics -- 22. Ethics, science, and religion / Simon Blackburn -- 23. Freedom and responsibility / Randolph Clarke -- 24. Reasons for action / Robert Audi -- 25. The open question argument / Thomas Baldwin -- 26. Realism and its alternatives / Peter Railton -- 27. Non-cognitivism / Alexander Miller -- 28. Error theory and fictionalism / Nadeem J.Z. Hussain -- 29. Cognitivism without realism / Andrew Fisher -- 30. Relativism / Nicholas L. Sturgeon -- Part III. Ideas and methods from outside ethics -- 31. Social anthropology / James Laidlaw -- 32. Ethics and psychology / Jesse Prinz -- 33. Biology / Michael Ruse -- 34. Formal methods in ethics / Erik Carlson -- 35. Ethics and law / John Gardner -- Part IV. Perspectives in ethics -- 36. Reasons, values, and morality / Simon Robertson -- 37. Consequentialism / Brad Hooker -- 38. Contemporary Kantian ethics / Andrews Reath -- 39. Ethical intuitionism / Philip Stratton-Lake -- 40. Virtue ethics / Michael Slote -- 41. Contractualism / Rahul Kumar -- 42. Contemporary natural law theory / Anthony J. Lisska -- 43. Feminist ethics / Samantha Brennan -- 44. Ethics and aesthetics / Robert Stecker -- Part V. Morality -- 45. Morality and its critics / Stephen Darwall -- 46. Conscience / John Skorupski -- 47. Respect and recognition / Allen W. Wood -- 48. Blame, remorse, mercy, forgiveness / Christopher Bennett -- 49. Evil / Geoffrey Scarre -- 50. Responsibility: intention and consequence / Suzanne Uniacke -- 51. Responsibility: act and omission / Michael J. Zimmerman -- 52. Partiality and impartiality / John Cottingham -- 53. Moral particularism / Michael Ridge and Sean McKeever -- Part VI. Debates in ethics -- (i) Goals and ideals -- 54. Welfare / Christopher Heathwood -- 55. Ideals of perfection / Vinit Haksar -- (ii) Justice -- 56. Rights / Tom Campbell -- 57. Justice and punishment / John Tasioulas -- 58. Justice and distribution / Matthew Clayton -- (iii) Human life -- 59. Life, death, and ethics / Fred Feldman -- 60. Ending life / R.G. Frey -- (iv) Our world -- 61. Population ethics / Tim Mulgan -- 62. Animals / Alan Carter -- 63. The environment / Andrew Brennan and Norva Y.S. Lo -- (v) Current issues -- 64. The ethics of free speech / Mary Kate McGowan -- 65. The ethics of research / Julian Savulescu and Tony Hope -- 66. World poverty / Thomas Pogge -- 67. War / Henry Shue -- 68. Torture and terrorism / David Rodin. |
| Summary |
This is a survey of the whole field of ethics by an international team of contributors. Over 60 chapters are divided into six clear sections: the history of ethics, meta-ethics, perspectives from outside ethics, ethical perspectives, morality, debates in ethics. |
| Subject |
Ethics.
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Ethics. |
| Added Author |
Skorupski, John, 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Issued also in e-book format: Routledge companion to ethics. 9780203850701 020385070X |
| ISBN |
9780415413626 hardback alkaline paper |
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0415413621 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780415415163 paperback alkaline paper |
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0415415160 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780203850701 |
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020385070X |
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