Ethics and Experience: Life Beyond Moral Theory

✍ Scribed by Tim Chappell

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 241
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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Tim Chappell is professor of philosophy at The Open University.Tim Chappell is professor of philosophy at The Open University.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
1. The turn to reason: how human beings got ethical
2. Demarcation: what does "ethical" mean?
3. Motivation: why be moral?
4. Deliberation: the question of reason
5. Introducing subjectivism and objectivism
6. Five arguments for ethical subjectivism
7. The content of ethics: expressivism, error theory, objectivism again
8. Virtue ethics
9. Utilitarianism
10. Kantianism and contractarianism
11. Theory and insight in ethics
Further reading
Bibliography
Index

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