An introduction to ethics / John Deigh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deigh, John, author.

Series:

Cambridge introductions to philosophy.

Cambridge introductions to philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the central questions of ethics through a study of theories of right and wrong that are found in the great ethical works of Western philosophy. It focuses on theories that continue to have a significant presence in the field. The core chapters cover egoism, the eudaimonism of Plato and Aristotle, act and rule utilitarianism, modern natural law theory, Kant's moral theory, and existentialist ethics. Readers will be introduced not only to the main ideas of each theory but to contemporary developments and defenses of those ideas. A final chapter takes up topics in meta-ethics and moral psychology. The discussions throughout draw the reader into philosophical inquiry through argument and criticism that illuminate the profundity of the questions under examination. Students will find this book to be a very helpful guide to how philosophical inquiry is undertaken as well as to what the major theories in ethics hold.

Contents:

What is ethics

Egoism

Eudaimonism

Utilitarianism

The moral law

The ethics of self-determination

Practical reason.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

9786612631603

9780511740695

9780511847264

0511847262

9781107209473

1107209471

9781282631601

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0511744307

OCLC:

638859667