Morality and Action
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- Author: Warren Quinn
- Date Published: March 1994
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521446969
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Warren Quinn was widely regarded as a moral philosopher of remarkable talent. This collection of his most important contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy of action has been edited for publication by Philippa Foot. Quinn laid out the foundations for an anti-utilitarian moral philosophy that was critical of much contemporary work in ethics, such as the anti-realism of Gilbert Harman and the neo-subjectivism of Bernard Williams. Quinn's own distinctive moral theory is developed in the discussion of substantial, practical moral issues. For example, there are important pieces here on the permissibility of abortion, the justification (if any) of punishing criminals when no particular good seems likely to result, and on the distinction between killing and allowing to die, a distinction crucial to the subject of euthanasia and other topics in medical ethics. The volume would be ideally suited to upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on the foundations of ethics.
Read more- Warren Quinn, who died recently, was widely regarded as a moral philosopher of remarkable talent
- much of his work appeared as articles in hard-to-find journals – this collection of his major contributions to moral philosophy will be widely welcomed
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- Date Published: March 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521446969
- length: 272 pages
- dimensions: 214 x 139 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.362kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Moral and other realisms: some initial difficulties
2. Abortion: identity and loss
3. The right to threaten and the right to punish
4. Reply to Brook
5. Truth and explanation in ethics
6. Reflection and the loss of moral knowledge: Williams on objectivity
7. Actions, intentions, and consequences: the doctrine of doing and allowing
9. Actions, intentions, and consequences: the doctrine of double effect
9. Reply to Boyle's 'who is entitled to double effect?'
10. The puzzle of the self-torturer
11. Rationality and the human good
12. Putting rationality in its place.
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