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Taschenbuch

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17.07.2024

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Oxford University Press

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448

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20.8/14.2/1.6 cm

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6 Revised edition

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Englisch

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978-0-19-769747-4

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

17.07.2024

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Seitenzahl

448

Maße (L/B/H)

20.8/14.2/1.6 cm

Gewicht

481 g

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6 Revised edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-769747-4

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  • Produktbild: Shafer-Landau, R: Fundamentals of Ethics

    • Preface
    • New to the Sixth Edition
    • Instructor's Manual and Companion Website
    • A Note on the Companion Volume
    • Acknowledgments
    • INTRODUCTION
    • PART one
    • The Good Life
    • Chapter 1: Hedonism: Its Powerful Appeal
    • CHAPTER 2: Is Happiness All That Matters?
    • CHAPTER 3
    • Getting What You Want
    • A Variety of Good Lives
    • Personal Authority
    • Avoiding Objective Values
    • Motivation
    • Justifying the Pursuit of Self-Interest
    • Knowledge of the Good
    • Discussion Questions
    • CHAPTER 4
    • Problems for the Desire Theory
    • Getting What You Want May Not Be Necessary for Promoting Your Good
    • Getting What You Want May Not Be Sufficient for Promoting Your Good
    • Desires Based on False Beliefs
    • Disinterested and Other-Regarding Desires
    • Disappointment
    • Ignorance of Desire Satisfaction
    • Impoverished Desires
    • The Paradox of Self-Harm and Self-Sacrifice
    • The Fallibility of Our Deepest Desires
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • Cases for Critical Reflection
    • PART two
    • Normative Ethics: Doing the Right Thing
    • CHAPTER 5
    • Morality and Religion
    • First Assumption: Religious Belief Is Needed for Moral Motivation
    • Second Assumption: Moral Conduct Is Rational only if God Exists
    • Third Assumption: God Is the Creator of Morality
    • Fourth Assumption: Religion Is an Essential Source of Moral Guidance
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • CHAPTER 6
    • Natural Law
    • The Theory and Its Attractions
    • Three Conceptions of Human Nature
    • Human Nature as Animal Nature
    • Human Nature Is What Is Innate
    • Human Nature Is What All Humans Have in Common
    • Natural Purposes
    • The Argument from Humanity
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • Cases for Critical Reflection
    • CHAPTER 7
    • Psychological Egoism
    • Egoism and Altruism
    • Does It Matter Whether Psychological Egoism Is True?
    • The Argument from Our Strongest Desires
    • The Argument from Expected Benefit
    • Two Egoistic Strategies
    • Appealing to the Guilty Conscience
    • Expanding the Realm of Self-Interest
    • Letting the Evidence Decide
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • CHAPTER 8
    • Ethical Egoism
    • Why Be Moral?
    • Two Popular Arguments for Ethical Egoism
    • The Self-Reliance Argument
    • The Libertarian Argument
    • The Best Argument for Ethical Egoism
    • Three Problems for Ethical Egoism
    • Egoism Violates Core Moral Beliefs
    • Egoism Cannot Allow for the Existence of Moral Rights
    • Egoism Arbitrarily Makes My Interests All-Important
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • Cases for Critical Reflection
    • CHAPTER 9
    • Consequentialism: Its Nature and Attractions
    • The Nature of Consequentialism
    • Its Structure
    • Maximizing Goodness
    • Moral Knowledge
    • Actual Versus Expected Results
    • Assessing Actions and Intentions
    • The Attractions of Utilitarianism
    • Impartiality
    • The Ability to Justify Conventional Moral Wisdom
    • Conflict Resolution
    • Moral Flexibility
    • The Scope of the Moral Community
    • Slippery Slope Arguments
    • Discussion Questions
    • CHAPTER 10
    • Consequentialism: Its Difficulties
    • Measuring Well-Being
    • Utilitarianism Is Very Demanding
    • Deliberation
    • Motivation
    • Action
    • Impartiality
    • No Intrinsic Wrongness (or Rightness)
    • The Problem of Injustice
    • Potential Solutions to the Problem of Injustice
    • Justice Is Also Intrinsically Valuable
    • Injustice Is Never Optimific
    • Justice Must Sometimes Be Sacrificed
    • Rule Consequentialism
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • Cases for Critical Reflection
    • CHAPTER 11
    • The Kantian Perspective: Fairness and Justice
    • Consistency and Fairness
    • The Principle of Universalizability
    • Morality and Rationality
    • Assessing the Principle of Universalizability
    • Integrity
    • Kant on Absolute Moral Duties
    • Discussion Questions
    • CHAPTER 12
    • The Kantian Perspective: Autonomy, Free Will, and Respect
    • The Principle of Humanity
    • The Importance of Rationality and Autonomy
    • The Problem of Free Will
    • Four Problems with the Principle of Humanity
    • Vagueness
    • Determining Just Deserts
    • Moral Luck
    • The Scope of the Moral Community
    • The Good Will and Moral Worth
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • Cases for Critical Reflection
    • CHAPTER 13
    • The Social Contract Tradition: The Theory and Its Attractions
    • The Lure of Proceduralism
    • The Background of the Social Contract Theory
    • The Prisoner's Dilemma
    • Cooperation and the State of Nature
    • The Advantages of Contractarianism
    • Morality Is Essentially a Social Phenomenon
    • Contractarianism Explains and Justifies the Content of the Basic Moral Rules
    • Contractarianism Offers a Method for Justifying Every Moral Rule
    • Contractarianism Explains the Objectivity of Morality
    • Contractarianism Explains Why It Is Sometimes Acceptable to Break the Moral Rules
    • More Advantages: Morality and the Law
    • Contractarianism Justifies a Basic Moral Duty to Obey the Law
    • The Contractarian Justification of Legal Punishment
    • Contractarianism Justifies the State's Role in Criminal Law
    • Contractarianism and Civil Disobedience
    • Discussion Questions
    • CHAPTER 14
    • The Social Contract Tradition: Problems and Prospects
    • Why Be Moral?
    • The Role of Consent
    • Disagreement among the Contractors
    • The Scope of the Moral Community
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • Cases for Critical Reflection
    • CHAPTER 15
    • Moral Absolutism
    • Is Torture Always Immoral?
    • Preventing Catastrophes
    • The Doctrine of Double Effect
    • A Reply to the Argument from Disaster Prevention
    • How the DDE Threatens Act Consequentialism
    • Distinguishing Intention from Foresight
    • Moral Conflict and Contradiction
    • Is Moral Absolutism Irrational?
    • The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • Cases for Critical Reflection
    • CHAPTER 16
    • Prima Facie Duties and Ethical Particularism
    • Ross's Ethic of Prima Facie Duties
    • The Advantages of Ross's View
    • There are Many Fundamental Moral ConsiderationsWe Are Sometimes Permitted to Break the Moral Rules
    • Moral Conflict
    • Moral Regret
    • Addressing the Anti-absolutist Arguments
    • A Problem for Ross's View
    • The Appeal to Self-Evidence
    • Self-Evidence and the Testing of Moral Theories
    • Knowing the Right Thing to Do
    • Ethical Particularism
    • Three Problems for Ethical Particularism
    • Its Lack of Unity
    • Accounting for Moral Knowledge
    • Some Things Possess Permanent Moral Importance
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • Cases for Critical Reflection
    • CHAPTER 17
    • Virtue Ethics
    • The Standard of Right Action
    • Moral Complexity
    • Moral Understanding
    • Moral Education
    • The Nature of Virtue
    • Virtue and the Good Life
    • Objections
    • Tragic Dilemmas
    • Does Virtue Ethics Offer Adequate Moral Guidance?
    • Is Virtue Ethics Too Demanding?
    • Who Are the Moral Role Models?
    • Conflict and Contradiction
    • The Priority Problem
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • Cases for Critical Reflection
    • CHAPTER 18
    • Feminist Ethics
    • The Elements of Feminist Ethics
    • Moral Development
    • Women's Experience
    • The Ethics of Care
    • The Importance of Emotions
    • Against Unification
    • Against Impartiality and Abstraction
    • Against Competition
    • Downplaying Rights
    • Challenges for Feminist Ethics
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • Cases for Critical Reflection
    • PART three
    • Metaethics: The Status of Morality
    • CHAPTER 19
    • Ethical Relativism
    • Doubts about Objective Morality
    • Two Kinds of Ethical Relativism-And Their Attractions
    • Some Implications of Ethical Subjectivism and Cultural Relativism
    • Moral Infallibility
    • Moral Equivalence
    • Questioning Our Own Commitments
    • Moral Progress
    • Ethical Subjectivism and the Problem of Contradiction
    • Cultural Relativism and the Problem of Contradiction
    • Ideal Observers
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • CHAPTER 20
    • Moral Nihilism
    • Error Theory
    • The Theory and Its Attractions
    • Two Mistaken Objections
    • Expressivism
    • The Theory and Its Attractions
    • How Is It Possible to Argue Logically about Morality?
    • Expressivism and Amoralists
    • The Nature of Moral Judgment
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • CHAPTER 21
    • Ethical ObjectivismThe Theory and Its Attractions
    • Ten Arguments against Ethical Objectivism
    • Objectivity Requires Absolutism
    • All Truth Is Subjective
    • Equal Rights Imply Equal Plausibility
    • Moral Objectivity Supports Dogmatism
    • Moral Objectivity Supports Intolerance
    • Moral Objectivity Cannot Allow for Legitimate Cultural Variation
    • Moral Disagreement Undermines Moral Objectivity
    • Atheism Undermines Moral Objectivity
    • The Absence of Categorical Reasons Undermines Moral Objectivity
    • Values Have No Place in a Scientific World
    • Conclusion
    • Discussion Questions
    • CHAPTER 22
    • Is Moral Knowledge Possible? Five Skeptical Arguments
    • The Skeptical Argument from Disagreement
    • Certainty
    • Who's to Say?
    • Irrelevant Influences
    • Hume's Argument
    • Conclusion
    • References?R-1
    • Suggestions for Further Reading?FR-1
    • Glossary?G-1
    • Index?I-1