Routledge Library Editions: Ethics

✍ Scribed by Various Authors

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 141
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Originally published between 1921 and 2003, the 48 volumes in this set cover one of the most problematic areas of moral philosophy, and one which is a key component of many undergraduate philosophy degrees. The volumes in this set include volumes on all the main areas: Applied, normative, descriptive, consequentialist and metaethics and touch on the vital issues of objectivity and subjectivity, relativism and realism, reason and feeling, necessity and freedom.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Title Page
Original Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Original Half Title
Chapter 1 Appraiser Relativism and the Reliability of Our Linguistic Intuitions
1. Appraiser Relativism Defined
2. The Alleged Explanation of the Intractability of Moral Disagreements
3. Some Counterintuitive Implications of Appraiser Relativism
4. The First Two Strategies for Explaining Away Our Linguistic Intuitions
5. A Test for Determining the Reliability of Our Linguistic Intuitions
6. The Third Strategy for Explaining Away Our Linguistic Intuitions
7. Appraiser Relativism, Explanation, and the Reliability of Our Linguistic Intuitions
8. Summary and Concluding Remarks
Chapter 2 Agent Relativism and Reasons for Action
1. The Practicality Argument for Agent Relativism
2. Two Arguments for Moral Universalism
3. A Defense of the Practicality Requirement
4. The Desire Argument for Reasons Relativism
5. The Narrow Desire Argument for Reasons Relativism
6. Summary
Chapter 3 Reasons for Action and the Ways of Being Good
1. The Project
2. The Ways of Being Good
3. The Ways of Being Good and Moral Requirements
4. The Ways of Being Good and Reasons for Action
5. The Quick Argument for the Relevance of Morality
6. Some Advantages of the Quick Argument for the Relevance of Morality
7. The Moral Requirements Thesis
8. Difficulties for the Revised Reasons for Action Thesis
9. The Revised Argument for the Relevance of Morality
10. Difficulties for the Revised Argument for the Relevance of Morality
11. Summary and Concluding Remarks
Afterword
1. Test and Appraiser Relativism in Other Areas
2. Defining Moral Relativism
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index