Moral dilemmas and other topics in moral philosophy / Philippa Foot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foot, Philippa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Dilemma.

Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects.

Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 page)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Moral Dilemmas is the second volume of collected essays by the eminent moral philosopher Philippa Foot. It fills the gap between her famous 1978 collection Virtues and Vices (now reissued) and her acclaimed monograph Natural Goodness, published in 2001. Moral Dilemmas presents the best of Professor Foot's work from the late 1970s to the 1990s. In these essays she develops further her influential critique of the 'non-cognitivist' approaches thathave dominated moral philosophy over the last fifty years. She shows why it is a mistake to think of morality in terms of special psychological states,

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 Morality and Art; 2 Moral Relativism; 3 Moral Realism and Moral Dilemma; 4 Utilitarianism and the Virtues; 5 Killing and Letting Die; 6 Morality, Action, and Outcome; 7 Von Wright on Virtue; 8 Locke, Hume, and Modern Moral Theory: A Legacy of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Philosophies of Mind; 9 Nietzsche's Immoralism; 10 Rationality and Virtue; 11 Moral Dilemmas Revisited; 12 Does Moral Subjectivism Rest on a Mistake?; Select Bibliography of Works by Philippa Foot; Index

Notes:

"Select bibliography of works by Philippa Foot": p. [209]-212.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-281-93055-5

0-19-153098-0

9786611930554

OCLC:

301965357