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The fundamentals of ethics
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- Creator
- Russ Shafer-Landau, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Third Edition
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 341 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199997237, 0199997233
- OCLC
- ocn865179951
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- Part One. The good life -- Hedonism: its powerful appeal -- Is happiness all that matters? -- Getting what you want -- Problems for the desire theory -- Part Two. Normative ethics: doing the right thing -- Morality and religion -- Natural law -- Psychological egoism -- Ethical egoism -- Consequentialism: its nature and attractions -- Consequentialsim: its difficulties -- The Kantian perspective: fairness -- The Kantian perspective: autonomy and respect -- The social contract tradition: the theory and its attractions -- The social contract tradition: problems and prospects -- Ethical pluralism and absolute moral rules -- Ethical pluralism: prima facie duties and ethical particularism -- Virtue ethics -- Feminist ethics -- Part Three. Metaethics: the status of morality -- Ethical relativism -- Moral nihilism -- Eleven arguments against moral objectivity