Ethical Theory: An Anthology

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Russ Shafer-Landau
John Wiley & Sons, Jul 30, 2007 - Philosophy - 796 pages
Ethical Theory: An Anthology is an authoritative collection of key essays by top scholars in the field, addressing core issues including consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, as well as traditionally underrepresented topics such as moral knowledge and moral responsibility.

  • Brings together seventy-six classic and contemporary pieces by renowned philosophers, from classic writing by Hume and Kant to contemporary writing by Derek Parfit, Susan Wolf, and Judith Jarvis Thomson
  • Guides students through key areas in the field, among them consequentialism, deontology, contractarianism, and virtue ethics
  • Includes coverage of metaethics, normative ethics, and practical ethics
  • Reaches beyond traditional texts by also including important, but usually
    underrepresented, topics such as moral knowledge, moral standing, moral
    responsibility, and ethical particularism
  • Raises questions about the status and rational authority of morality

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Contents

Part II Moral Knowledge
77
Part III Why Be Moral?
141
Part IV Ethics and Religion
235
Part V Value
279
Part VI Moral Responsibility
335
Part VII Moral Standing
389
Part VIII Consequentialism
451
Part IX Deontology
519
Part X Contractarianism
601
Part XI Virtue Ethics
661
Part XII Prima Facie Duties and Particularism
747
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About the author (2007)

Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is author of Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (2003) and Moral Realism: A Defence (2005). He is editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and co-editor of Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology (with Terence Cuneo, Blackwell 2006).

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