A Companion to EthicsPeter Singer John Wiley & Sons, 5 jun 2013 - 592 páginas In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself. The book can be read straight through from beginning to end; yet the inclusion of a multi-layered index, coupled with a descriptive outline of contents and bibliographies of relevant literature, means that the volume also serves as a work of reference, both for those coming afresh to the study of ethics and for readers already familiar with the subject. |
Índice
Christian ethics | |
Indian ethics | |
Buddhist ethics | |
Classical Chinese ethics | |
Questions about the moral status of fetuses | |
The ethic of reverence for life vi Genetic humanity | |
The sentience criterion | |
Personhood and moral rights | |
Why birth matters morally | |
Potential personhood xi Summary and conclusion | |
Sex i Introduction | |
Traditional Western morality | |
Jewish ethics | |
Islamic ethics | |
Ethics in ancient Greece | |
Medieval and Renaissance ethics | |
Modern moral philosophy | |
Natural | |
Conclusion | |
Kantian ethics | |
The social contract tradition | |
Egoism | |
Egoism as a means to the common good | |
Rational and ethical egoism | |
Conclusion | |
Contemporary deontology | |
Teleological vs deontological theories | |
The nature and structure of deontological constraints | |
Unanswered questions and potential problems | |
Concluding remarks | |
An ethic of prima facie duties | |
Conseguentialism i The definition of conseguentialism | |
Once more with some formality | |
The main argument against conseguentialism | |
The main argument for conseguentialism | |
Utility and the good | |
Virtue theory i Introduction | |
Anscombe and Maclntyre | |
The historical foundation of virtue theory | |
Eliminatism v Courage | |
Eliminatism again | |
Essentialism | |
Moral feelings desires wants | |
Character self and society | |
Introduction | |
World poverty | |
Environmental ethics | |
Euthanasia | |
Abortion i Introduction | |
Conseguentialist arguments for abortion | |
Abortion and Womens rights | |
Contractarian approaches | |
Challenges from the political left | |
Epilogue | |
Do they conflict? | |
The interplay of morality and personal relationships | |
Equality discrimination and preferential treatment i Introduction | |
The backwardlooking argument iii The forwardlooking argument | |
Business ethics | |
Crime and punishment | |
Politics and the problem of dirty hands | |
War and peace | |
Realism | |
lntuitionism | |
Subiectivism | |
Universal prescriptivism | |
Morality and psychological development | |
Method and moral theory | |
The methods of theorizing | |
The role of examples | |
Conclusion | |
The idea of a female ethic | |
The si nificance of evolution M | |
from altruism to altruism | |
The biological contract | |
Conclusion | |
Marx against morality i Introduction ii Marxs antimoralism | |
Historical materialism | |
Ideology v Ideology as unfreedom | |
Morality as ideology | |
Justice | |
Morality and rationality | |
The illusion of impartial benevolence | |
Can Marx do Without morality? | |
Has morality any future? | |
Conclusion | |
How could ethics depend on religion? | |
The implications of determinism | |
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