/ [edited by] Theodore C. Denise, Nicholas P. White, Sheldon P. Peterfreund
Australia
: Thomson/Wadsworth
, 2005.
xii, 377 p.
: , ill
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Pt. 1. Classical ethical traditions. -- Knowledge / Plato. -- Moral character / Aristotle. -- The pleasant life / Epicurus. -- Self-discipline / Epictetus. -- The love of God / Saint Augustine. -- Morality and natural law / Saint Thomas Aquinas. -- Social contract ethics / Thomas Hobbes. -- Nature and reason / Benedict de Spinoza. -- Conscience in morality / Joseph Butler. -- Morality and sentiment / David Hume. -- Duty and reason / Immanuel Kant. -- The greatest happiness principle / John Stuart Mill. -- Pt. 2. Modern continuations and critiques. -- The leap of faith / Sلأren Kierkegaard. -- Morality as ideology / Karl Marx. -- Utilitarianism revised / Henry Sidgwick. -- The transvaluation of values / Friedrich Nietzsche. -- Scientific method in ethics / John Dewey. -- The indefinability of good / G.E. Moore. -- Prima facie duty / W.D. Ross. -- Ethics as emotive expression / A.J. Ayer and C.L. Stevenson. -- Radical freedom / Jean-Paul Sartre. -- Good reasons in ethics / Kurt Baier. -- The concept of morality / William K. Frankena. -- Ethics and social justice / John Rawls. -- Moral virtue and human interest / Philippa Foot. -- Ethics as trusting in trust / Annette Baier. -- Inventing right and wrong / J.L. Mackie. -- Ethical skepticism / Bernard Williams. -- Epilogue: Applied ethics.