(Ebook) Ethical theory: an anthology by Shafer-Landau, Russ ISBN 9780470671603, 0470671602

(Ebook) Ethical theory: an anthology by Shafer-Landau, Russ ISBN 9780470671603, 0470671602

Preface -- Part I. The status of morality. "Of the influencing motives of the will" and "Moral distinctions not derived from reason" / David Hume ; A critique of ethics / A. J. Ayer ; The subjectivity of values / J. L. Mackie ; Ethics and observation / Gilbert Harman ; Moral relativism defended / Gilbert Harman ; Cultural relativism / Harry Gensler ; The subject-matter of ethics / G. E. Moore ; Ethics as philosophy : a defense of ethical nonnaturalism / Russ Shafer-Landau ; Realism / Michael Smith -- Part II. Moral knowledge. Thinking about cases / Shelly Kagan ; But I could be wrong / George Sher ; Proof / Renford Bambrough ; Moral knowledge and ethical pluralism / Robert Audi ; Coherentism and the justification of moral beliefs / Geoffrey Sayre-McCord -- Part III. Why be moral? The immoralist's challenge / Plato ; Morality as a system of hypothetical imperatives / Philippa Foot ; A puzzle about the rational authority of morality / David O. Brink ; Moral rationalism / Russ Shafer-Landau ; Psychological egoism / Joel Feinberg ; Flourishing egoism / Lester Hunt ; Ethical egoism / James Rachels ; Moral saints / Susan Wolf -- Part IV. Ethics and religion. Euthyphro / Plato ; A new divine command theory / Robert Merrihew Adams ; God and objective morality : a debate / William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ; God and immortality as postulates of pure practical reason / Immanuel Kant ; God and the moral order / C. Stephen Layman ; God and morality / Erik Wielenberg -- Part V. Value. Hedonism / John Stuart Mill ; The experience machine / Robert Nozick ; The good life : a defense of attitudinal hedonism / Fred Feldman ; Rationality and full information / Thomas Carson ; Desire and the human good / Richard Kraut ; What makes someone's life go best / Derek Parfit ; What things are good? / W. D. Ross -- Part VI. Moral responsibility. Determinism and the theory of agency / Richard Taylor ; The impossibility of moral responsibility / Galen Strawson ; Freedom and necessity / A. J. Ayer ; Moral luck / Thomas Nagel ; Sanity and the metaphysics of responsibility / Susan Wolf ; Freedom and resentment / Peter Strawson --;"The second edition of Ethical Theory: An Anthology features a comprehensive collection of more than 80 essays from classic and contemporary philosophers that address questions at the heart of moral philosophy"--