Format:
1 Online-Ressource (592 Seiten)
ISBN:
0631187855
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to philosophy
Content:
In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself. The book can be read straight through from beginning to end; yet the inclusion of a multi-layered index, coupled with a descriptive outline of contents and bibliographies of relevant literature, means that the volume also serves as a work of reference, both for those coming afresh to the study of ethics and for readers already famili
Content:
In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself. The book can be read straight through from beginning to end; yet the inclusion of a multi-layered index, coupled with a descriptive outline of contents and bibliographies of relevant literature, means that the volume also serves as a work of reference, both for those coming afresh to the study of ethics and for readers already familiar with the subject. Peter Singeris Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. He is the author of Animal Liberation,first published in 1975, and is widely credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement. His Practical Ethicsis one of the most widely used texts in applied ethics, and Rethinking Life and Deathreceived the 1995 National Book Council's Banjo Award for non-fiction. He was the foundation president of the International Association of Bioethics.
Note:
Cover; Contents; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Contributors; PART I: THE ROOTS; 1 The origin of ethics; i The search for justification; ii The lure of egoism and the social contract; iii Moral and factual arguments; iv Dualistic fantasies; v The advantages of ethology; vi Two objections; vii Sociability, conflict and the origins of morality; viii The problem of partiality; ix Is morality reversible?; x Conclusion; 2 Ethics in small-scale societies; 3 Ancient ethics; i Ethics in ancient Mesopotamia; ii Ethics in ancient Egypt
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iii Ethics in the Hebrew ScripturesPART II: THE GREAT ETHICAL TRADITIONS; 4 Indian ethics; i Brahmanical-Hindu ethics; ii Jaina ethics; iii Gandhian ethics; iv Concluding remarks; 5 Buddhist ethics; i Introduction; ii Ethical concerns in the Buddhist tradition; iii The moral philosophy of Buddhism; iv A Buddhist perspective on the place of knowledge and truth in ethics; v Buddhism as an ethics of virtues and vices; vi Buddhist social ethics; vii Buddhist perspectives on practical ethics; viii Contributions to ethics in the later Buddhist traditions; 6 Classical Chinese ethics
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i The positive Dao period: Confucius and Moziii The anti-language period: Yangzhu, Mencius and Laozi; iii The schools of names: formal meta-ethics; iv Zhuangzi: Daoist relativism; v Xunzi: pragmatic Confucianism; vi The Dark Ages: the end of the Hundred Schools; vii The continuing impact of classical thought; 7 Jewish ethics; 8 Christian ethics; i A survey of Christian faith and ethics; ii Jesus; iii St Paul; iv Criticisms of Christian ethics; 9 Islamic ethics; i Introduction; ii Beginnings and development: foundational values; iii The theological and traditionalist approaches
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iv Philosophical approachesv Ethics in the Shi'a tradition; vi Sufi perspectives; vii Muslim ethics in the contemporary world; PART III: WESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS: A SHORT HISTORY; 10 Ethics in ancient Greece; i Historical outline; ii Themes and issues in Greek ethics; 11 Medieval and Renaissance ethics; i Introduction; ii From the Church Fathers to the scholastics; iii The golden age of scholasticism; iv Renaissance pluralism and the decline of scholasticism; 12 Modern moral philosophy; i Toward autonomy; ii Autonomy and theory: pro and con; iii New directions
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PART IV: HOW OUGHT I TO LIVE?13 Natural law; i Introduction; ii A thumbnail history; iii A theory of human rights; iv Natural law and its modern rivals; v A theory of human goods; vi Conclusion; 14 Kantian ethics; i Introduction; ii Kant's ethics: the critical background; iii Kant's ethics: universal law and the construction of duty; iv Kant's ethics: respect for persons; v Kant's ethics: the problems of freedom, religion and history; vi 'Kant's ethics'; vii Kantian ethics; viii The Kantian legacy; 15 The social contract tradition; i The historical background
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ii Current social contract theories of ethics
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1118724968
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781118724965
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Companion to Ethics
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Ethik
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Author information:
Singer, Peter 1946-
