Moral Dilemmas: and other topics in moral philosophy / Edition 1

by Philippa Foot

Overview

Moral Dilemmas is the second volume of collected essays by the eminent moral philosopher Philippa Foot, gathering the best of her work from the late 1970s to the 1990s. It fills the gap between her famous 1978 collection Virtues and Vice (now reissued) and her acclaimed monograph Natural Goodness, published in 2001. In this new collection, Professor Foot develops further her critique of the dominant ethical theories of the last fifty years, and discusses such topics as the nature of moral judgement, practical rationality, and the conflict of virtue with desire and self-interest. Moral Dilemmas, alongside her other two books, completes the summation of her distinctive and lasting contribution to twentieth-century moral philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199252848
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/27/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 5.54(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Somerville College, Oxford

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Morality and Art2. Moral Relativism3. Moral Realism and Moral Dilemma4. Utilitarianism and the Virtues5. Killing and Letting Die6. Morality, Action, and Outcome7. Von Wright on Virtue8. Locke, Hume, and Modern Moral Theory9. Nietzsche's Immoralism10. Rationality and Virtue11. Moral Dilemmas Revisited12. Does Moral Subjectivism Rest on a Mistake? Select Bibliography of Works by Philippa FootIndex