Ethics and experience : life beyond moral theory / Timothy Chappell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chappell, T. D. J. (Timothy D. J.)

Chappell Tim Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Conduct of life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ethics and Experience presents a wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction to the question famously posed by Socrates: How is life to be lived? An excellent primer for any student taking a course on moral philosophy, the book introduces ethics as a single and broadly unified field of inquiry in which we apply reason to try and solve Socrates’ question. Ethics and Experience examines the major forms of ethical subjectivism and objectivism - including expressivism, “error theory”, naturalism, and intuitionism. The book lays out the detail of the most significant contemporary moral theories - including utilitarianism, virtue ethics, Kantianism, and contractarianism - and reconsiders these theories in the light of two questions that should perhaps be asked more often: Is moral theory, with its tendency to regiment ethical thought and experience, really the best way for us to apply reason to deciding how to live? And, might it not be more truly reasonable to look for less system and more insight?

Contents:

1 The turn to reason : how human beings got ethical

2 Demarcation : what does "ethical" mean?

3 Motivation : why be moral?

4 Deliberation : the question of reason

5 Introducing subjectivism and objectivism

6 Five arguments for ethical subjectivism

7 The content of ethics : expressivism, error theory, objectivism again

8 Virtue ethics

9 Utilitarianism

10 Kantianism and contractarianism

11 Theory and insight in ethics.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-49264-1

1-317-49265-X

1-315-71167-2

1-283-45668-0

9786613456687

1-84465-416-8

9781315711676

OCLC:

898104156