An Introduction to Ethics

By:

John Deigh

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy

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This book examines the central questions of ethics through a study of theories of right and wrong that are found in the great ethical works of Western philosophy. It focuses on theories that continue to have a significant presence in the field. The core chapters cover egoism, the eudaimonism of Plato and Aristotle, act and rule utilitarianism, modern natural law theory, Kant's moral theory, and existentialist ethics. Readers will be introduced not only to the main ideas of each theory but to contemporary developments and defenses of those ideas. A final chapter takes up topics in meta-ethics and moral psychology. The discussions throughout draw the reader into philosophical inquiry through argument and criticism that illuminate the profundity of the questions under examination. Students will find this book to be a very helpful guide to how philosophical inquiry is undertaken as well as to what the major theories in ethics hold.

Author Biography:

John Deigh is Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Sources of Moral Agency (Cambridge, 1996) and of Emotions, Values, and the Law (2008).

Release date Australia

March 4th, 2010

Author

John Deigh

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

1 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

254

Series

Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy

Dimensions

180x266x17

ISBN-13

9780521772464

Product ID

3962087

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