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The fundamentals of ethics /

Title:
The fundamentals of ethics /
Author:
Shafer-Landau, Russ, author.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emerson College
Contents:
Part One. The good life -- Hedonism: its powerful appeal -- Is happiness all that matters? -- Getting what you want -- Problems for the desire theory -- Part Two. Normative ethics: doing the right thing -- Morality and religion -- Natural law -- Psychological egoism -- Ethical egoism -- Consequentialism: its nature and attraction -- Consequentialism: its difficulties -- The Kantian perspective: fairness and justice -- The Kantian perspective : autonomy, free will, and respect -- The social contract tradition: the theory and its attractions -- The social contract tradition: problems and prospects -- Ethical pluralism and absolute moral rules -- Ethical pluralism: Prima Facie duties and ethical particularism -- Virtue ethics -- Feminist ethics -- Part Three. Metaethics: the status of morality -- Ethical relativism -- Moral nihilism -- Eleven arguments against moral objectivity -- Is moral knowledge possible?: five skeptical arguments.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
BJ1012 .S43 2021 – Available