Drawing Morals: Essays in Ethical Theory

✍ Scribed by Thomas Hurka

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 289
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume contains selected essays in moral and political philosophy by Thomas Hurka. The essays address a wide variety of topics, from the well-rounded life and the value of playing games to proportionality in war and the ethics of nationalism. They also share a common aim: to illuminate the surprising richness and subtlety of our everyday moral thought by revealing its underlying structure, which they often do by representing that structure on graphs. More specifically, the essays all give what the first in the volume calls "structural" as against "foundational" analyses of moral views. Eschewing the grander ambition of grounding our ideas about, say, virtue or desert in claims that use different concepts and concern some other, allegedly more fundamental topic, they examine these ideas in their own right and with close attention to their details. As well as illuminating their individual topics, the essays illustrate the insights this structural method can yield.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
PART I: Methodology......Page 14
1. Normative Ethics: Back to the Future......Page 16
PART II: Comparing and Combining Goods......Page 36
2. Value and Population Size......Page 38
3. The Well-Rounded Life......Page 50
4. Monism, Pluralism, and Rational Regret......Page 68
5. How Great a Good Is Virtue?......Page 87
6. Two Kinds of Organic Unity......Page 107
7. Asymmetries in Value......Page 126
RART III: Individual Goods......Page 150
8. Why Value Autonomy?......Page 152
9. Desert: Individualistic and Holistic......Page 167
10. Virtuous Act, Virtuous Disposition......Page 191
11. Games and the Good......Page 198
PART IV: Principles of Right......Page 212
12. Rights and Capital Punishment......Page 214
13. Two Kinds of Satisficing......Page 228
14. The Justification of National Partiality......Page 232
15. Proportionality in the Morality of War......Page 251
References......Page 278
D......Page 285
K......Page 286
P......Page 287
S......Page 288
W......Page 289

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