Ethics
Part of Talking Philosophy
- Editor: Allen Phillips-Griffiths, Trinity College, Cambridge
- Date Published: June 2022
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009107716
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Ethical questions are often associated with practical dilemmas: questions in morality, in other words. This volume, by contrast, asks questions about morality: what it is, and to what it owes its precarious authority over us. The focus on metaethics is sustained throughout, via a wide range of philosophical perspectives. Distinguished luminaries who include R. M. Hare and Bernard Williams address keenly debated issues such as what constitutes morality in politics; the relationship between education and ethical standards; and whether or not morality can indeed be defined at all. As Nikhil Krishnan writes in his elegant Foreword, 'The plain-speaking, essayistic grace of these essays, speaks nevertheless of the possibility of moral philosophy, written with an eye to a listener, very possibly not a professional philosopher, who has the right to say, ''This is all very well, your neat little theory, but it doesn't ring true. Things are more complicated than that.'''
Read more- A splendid introduction to debates over the nature of morality by some of the great names in moral philosophy
- The focus on politics and morality is perhaps more topical than ever
- Contains two brilliant pieces by R. M. Hare and Bernard Williams which elaborate on their influential works, respectively Moral Thinking by Hare (1981) and Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985) by Williams
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- Date Published: June 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009107716
- length: 433 pages
- dimensions: 199 x 128 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.457kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
Foreword Nikhil Krishnan
Preface:
1. Objective prescriptions R. M. Hare
2. Integrity and self-Identity Stewart R. Sutherland
3. The better part Stephen R. L. Clark
4. Invincible knowledge Renford Bambrough
5. Emmanuel levinas: responsibility and election Catherine Chalier
6. Ethical absolutism and education Peter Gardner
7. Morals and politics Anthony Quinton
8. Duties and virtues Onora O'neill
9. The definition of morality John Skorupski
10. Ethics, fantasy and self-transformation Jean Grimshaw
11. How we do ethics now James Griffin
12. Justice without constitutive Luck S. L. Hurley
13. Who needs ethical knowledge? Bernard Williams
14. Institutional ethics Marcus G. Singer
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