Ethics : twelve lectures on the philosophy of morality / David Wiggins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiggins, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

x, 393 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Summary:

ethics for anyone who looks to philosophy to expand their own thoughts or to husband the whole variety of our ethical ideas, study their provenance, and ascertain their collective reach and aggregated power.

Contents:

I Morality: Its motive and content

1 Glaucon's and Adeimantus' interrogation of Socrates 9

2 Hume's genealogy of morals 30

3 Hume's theory extended 66

4 From Hume to Kant 83

5 The laws of morality as the laws of freedom and the laws of freedom as the laws of morality 121

6 Classical utilitarianism 139

7 A fresh argument for utilitarianism 170

8 The consequentialist argument 205

9 A first-order ethic of solidarity and reciprocity 229

II Justice

10 Neo-Aristotelian reflections on justice 272

III Metaethics

11 Objectivity in ethics 325

12 Miscellanea metaethica 357.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0674022149

OCLC:

62421325

Publisher Number:

9780674022140