Ethical Theory: An Anthology - Rilegato

Shafer-Landau, Russ

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ISBN 10: 1405133198 ISBN 13: 9781405133197

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2007

Riassunto

Ethical Theory: An Anthology is an authoritative collection of key essays by top scholars in the field, addressing core issues including consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, as well as traditionally underrepresented topics such as moral knowledge and moral responsibility.

• Brings together seventy-six classic and contemporary pieces by renowned philosophers, from classic writing by Hume and Kant to contemporary writing by Derek Parfit, Susan Wolf, and Judith Jarvis Thomson
  
• Guides students through key areas in the field, among them consequentialism, deontology, contractarianism, and virtue ethics
  
• Includes coverage of metaethics, normative ethics, and practical ethics
  
• Reaches beyond traditional texts by also including important, but usually
  underrepresented, topics such as moral knowledge, moral standing, moral
  responsibility, and ethical particularism
  
• Raises questions about the status and rational authority of morality

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Recensione:

This collection is a very welcome addition. It is remarkable for the breadth of issues discussed and the diversity of positions represented. Throughout, the selections have been chosen with a keen eye for excellence and accessibility. Taken together, they provide a vivid panorama of ethical theory today.
Peter Railton, University of Michigan

It is a wonderfully comprehensive collection that manages to bring together well–chosen papers on a number of significant areas in moral theory.
Geoff Sayre–McCord, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

L'autore:

Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is author of Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (2003) and Moral Realism: A Defence (2005). He is editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and co-editor of Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology (with Terence Cuneo, Blackwell 2006).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1405133198
• ISBN 13: 9781405133197
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 796