The cosmos of duty : Henry Sidgwick's Methods of ethics / Roger Crisp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crisp, Roger, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sidgwick, Henry, 1838-1900. Methods of ethics.

Sidgwick, Henry.

Sidgwick, Henry, 1838-1900.

Ethics--History--19th century.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 252 pages)

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Other Title:

Henry Sidgwick's Methods of ethics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Roger Crisp presents a comprehensive study of Henry Sidgwick's 'The Methods of Ethics', a landmark work first published in 1874. Crisp argues that Sidgwick is largely right about central issues in moral philosophy: the metaphysics and epistemology of ethics, consequentialism, hedonism about well-being, and the weight to be given to self-interest.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""The Cosmos of Duty: Henry Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Note on References""; ""List of Key Passages""; ""Summary by Chapter""; ""1: The Nature of Ethics""; ""1 Sidgwick's Project""; ""2 The Autonomy of Ethics""; ""2.1 Cognitivism and Non-naturalist Quietism ""; ""2.2 Is and Ought""; ""2.3 Ought and Rationality""; ""3 Moral Motivation""; ""4 Principles and Methods""; ""5 Sidgwick's Three Methods ""; ""6 Ethics and Politics ""; ""2: Free Will""; ""1 The Aim and Structure of 1.5""

""2 Disinterested Action, Rational Action, and Kant""""3 The Will""; ""3.1 Voluntariness, Volition, Intention, and Responsibility""; ""3.2 The Scope of the Will""; ""4 Determinism and Libertarianism""; ""4.1 Determinism""; ""4.2 Libertarianism""; ""5 The Significance of the Debate""; ""3: Hedonism and the Ultimate Good ""; ""1 Goodness, Rightness, and the Ultimate Good""; ""2 Pleasure""; ""2.1 The Volitional View""; ""2.2 The Feeling-Tone View""; ""2.3 The Apprehension View""; ""2.4 The Desirable Consciousness View""; ""3 Hedonism""; ""3.1 Psychological Hedonism""

""3.2 Against Synonymic Hedonism""""3.3 Welfare Hedonism""; ""3.4 Empirical Hedonism""; ""3.5 Objective and Deductive Hedonisms""; ""4 Objections to Empirical Hedonism""; ""4.1 Practical Objections""; ""4.2 Theoretical Objections""; ""4: Intuitionism ""; ""1 Intuition and Intuitions""; ""2 Intuitionisms""; ""2.1 Perceptional Intuitionism""; ""2.2 Dogmatic Intuitionism""; ""2.3 Philosophical Intuitionism""; ""3 Self-evidence""; ""3.1 Conditions for Certainty""; ""3.2 Sham-axioms""; ""3.3 The Self-evident Axioms""; ""5: Virtue ""; ""1 Intention and Motive""

""2 Virtue, Duty, and Supererogation""""2.1 Objective and Subjective Rightness""; ""2.2 The Relation between Virtue and Duty""; ""2.3 Supererogation""; ""3 The Nature of Virtue""; ""3.1 Action and Emotion""; ""3.2 Virtue and Motivation""; ""3.3 The Cultivation and Value of Virtue""; ""6: The Virtues ""; ""1 Wisdom and Self-control""; ""2 Benevolence""; ""2.1 Feeling, Object, and Scope""; ""2.2 Special Relations""; ""3 Justice""; ""3.1 Justice, Law, and Distribution""; ""3.2 Contract and Custom""; ""3.3 Natural Rights and Freedom""; ""3.4 Desert""; ""4 Laws and Promises""

""4.1 Political Obligation""""4.2 Promises""; ""4.3 Utilitarianism and Justice""; ""5 Veracity""; ""6 Malevolence and Liberality""; ""7 Self-regarding Virtues""; ""8 Courage and Humility""; ""9 The Failure of Common-sense Morality""; ""7: Egoism, Utilitarianism, and the Dualism of Practical Reason""; ""1 Egoism""; ""1.1 A Dubious Guidance?""; ""1.2 Happiness and Duty""; ""2 Utilitarianism""; ""2.1 Sidgwick's Form of Utilitarianism""; ""2.2 The Arguments for Utilitarianism""; ""2.3 Utilitarianism and Common-sense Morality""; ""2.4 The Method of Utilitarianism""

""3 The Dualism of Practical Reason""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 03, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-880137-8

0-19-102566-6

0-19-178504-0

OCLC:

912320466