Whatever Happened to Good and Evil?

Shafer-Landau

Oxford University Press Inc（2003/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 160 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780195168730
• DDC分類 170

Full Description

This is a brief introduction to ethics, with a point of view. This book addresses "meta-ethical" questions that go beyond what most introductory ethics books address, which are "normative" theories (egoism, utilitarianism, etc.) and "applied" ethics (abortion, capital punishment, etc.).Instead this book focuses on whether our ethical views on such matters can themselves be true or false, and, if so, whether their truth lies in personal or cultural opinion, or some objective, independent standard. With many examples, and an emphasis on argumentative clarity, this book is ideal for introductory ethics and philosophy courses and the interested general reader.

Contents

Acknowledgments ; Preface ; PART I: THE STATUS OF MORALITY ; 1. The Nature of the Problem ; 2. The Philosophical Terrain ; PART II: AGAINST MORAL SKEPTICISM ; 3. Moral Error ; 4. Moral Equivalence ; 5. Moral Progress and Moral Comparison ; 6. Dogmatism ; 7. Tolerance ; 8. Arbitrariness ; 9. Contradiction and Disagreement ; 10. Relativism and Contradiction ; 11. Is Moral Skepticism Self-Refuting? ; PART III: MORAL OBJECTIVITY DEFENDED ; 12. How Ethical Objectivism Solves the Problem of Moral Skepticism ; 13. Universality, Objectivity, Absolutism ; 14. The (Un)Importance of Moral Disagreement ; 15. Does Ethical Objectivity Require God? ; 16. Where Do Moral Standards Come From? ; 17. Values in a Scientific World ; 18. Moral Knowledge I: Four Skeptical Arguments ; 19. Moral Knowledge II: The Regress Argument ; 20. Why Be Moral? ; Conclusion ; Synopsis of the Major Arguments ; Glossary