Three Methods of Ethics: A Debate / Edition 1

by Marcia W. Baron, Philip Pettit, Michael A. Slote

Overview

During the past decade ethical theory has been in a lively state of development, and three basic approaches to ethics - Kantian ethics, consequentialism, and virtue ethics - have assumed positions of particular prominence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631194347
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	12/08/1997
Series:	Great Debates in Philosophy
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.29(w) x 9.35(h) x 1.05(d)

About the Author

Marcia W. Baron is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Urbana. She is the author of Kantian Ethics Almost Without Apology (1995).

Philip Pettit is Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University. He is the author of Republicanism (1996), The Common Mind (1993), and Not Just Deserts (1990), and is editor (with Robert E. Goodin) of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy (Blackwell Publishers, paperback edition 1996) and Contemporary Political Philosophy: an Anthology (Blackwell Publishers, paperback edition 1997).

Michael Slote is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Goods and Virtues (1983), Common Sense Morality and Consequentialism (1985), Beyond Optimizing(1989), and From Morality to Virtue (1992).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Kantian Ethics
Marcia Baron

1. Introduction

2. Consequentalism versus Kantian Ethics

3. Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics

4. Further Objections to Kantian Ethics

Part II: The Consequentialist Perspective
Philip Pettit

5. A Moral Psychology for Consequentialists and Non-consequentialists

6. The Question of Rightness

7. Different Answers to the Question of Rightness

8. In Favour of the Consequentialist Answer to the Question of Rightness

9. The Tenability of the Consequentialist Answer

Part III: Virtue Ethics
Michael Slote

10. What is Virtue Ethics?

11. Theory versus Anti-theory

12. Virtue Ethics versus Kantian and Common-sense Morality

13. Common-sense Virtue Ethics versus Consequentialism

14. Further Aspects of Common-sense virtual Ethics

15. Making Sense of Agent-based Virtue Ethics

16. Morality as Inner Strength

17. Morality as Universal Benevolence

18. Morality as Caring

19. Agent-basing and Applied Ethics

20. Conclusion: Comparisons within Virtue Ethics

Part IV: Reply to Pettit and Slote
Marcia Baron

21. Reply to Pettit

22. Reply to Stote

Part V: Reply to Baron and Stote
Phillip Pettit

23. Rival Theories?

24. Comment on Slote

25. Comment on Baron

Part VI: Reply to Baron and Pettit
Michael Slote

26. Reply to Baron

27. Reply to Pettit

28. Virtue Politics

Editorial Reviews

"An unprecedented three-way conversation between forceful representatives of the three major traditions in ethical philosophy." Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan

"An outstanding resource: a book which students beginning to think about normative ethical theory, and their teachers, simply must read." Michael Smith, Australian National University

"This is a superb book by three moral philosophers who really know their stuff; lively, lucid and highly engaging." John Fischer, University of California, Riverside

"This book, which brings together leading protagonists of the three approaches to ethics currently dominant, is definitely one of the best in ethics for 1997. It will provide any reader (whether student, teacher, or 'researcher') with not only an excellent 'big picture' of this important area of debate, but also much philosophical detail to chew over." Steven Tudor, University of Melbourne, Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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