This Is Ethics An Introduction.

This Is Ethics An Introduction.

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Main Author: Suikkanen, Jussi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • This Is Philosophy
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One: What's in Our Interests?
  • 1: Pleasure
  • Three Questions about Pleasure
  • What Is Pleasure?
  • The sensation view
  • The attitude view
  • The desire view
  • Physiology of pleasure*
  • Value of Pleasure
  • Hedonism
  • Pluralism about prudential value
  • Pessimism about the value of pleasure*
  • Summary and Questions
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Online Resources
  • 2: Happiness, Well-Being, and the Meaning of Life
  • Hedonism, Again
  • Objection 1: Trivial pleasures
  • Objection 2: The role of happiness in deliberation
  • Satisfaction Theories
  • Desire satisfaction theories of well-being
  • Objections to desire satisfaction theories
  • Life satisfaction theories of happiness
  • An objection to life satisfaction theories
  • Objective List Theories
  • Objections to the objective list theories
  • The Capability Approach*
  • Happiness and the Meaning of Life
  • Emotional state theory of happiness*
  • The question of the meaning of life
  • Susan Wolf's fitting fulfillment theory
  • Summary and Questions
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Online Resources
  • Part Two: Normative Ethics
  • 3: Egoism and Altruism
  • Different Forms of Egoism and Altruism
  • Feldman's objection to ethical egoism
  • Two Arguments for Ethical Egoism
  • The "ought implies can" argument
  • The practical reasons argument
  • Two Objections to Psychological Egoism
  • The everyday objection
  • The evolutionary objection
  • Moore's Argument against Ethical Egoism*
  • Problems of Moore's argument*
  • Gauthier's Contractarianism
  • The paradox of social cooperation
  • Contractarianism as a solution
  • The compliance problem
  • Summary
  • Problems with Gauthier's Theory
  • Objection 1: Scope of moral concern
  • Objection 2: Deception
  • Objection 3: Acting for right reasons
  • Summary and Questions
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Online Resources
  • 4: Consequentialism and Kantian Ethics
  • Consequentialism
  • Utilitarianism
  • Deliberation procedure vs. criterion of rightness
  • Direct vs. indirect forms of consequentialism
  • Utilitarianism vs. richer conceptions of value
  • Actual vs. expected value
  • Maximizing vs. satisficing
  • Mill's Argument for Utilitarianism
  • The problems with Mill's argument
  • Saving Mill's argument
  • Kantian Ethics
  • The good will
  • The universalization test
  • Duties, right and wrong
  • Why do the right thing?
  • Counterexamples and Convergence
  • Counterexamples to utilitarianism
  • Counterexamples to the Categorical Imperative
  • Utilitarian and consequentialist responses to the counterexamples*
  • Kantian responses to the counterexamples*
  • Convergence*
  • Summary and Questions
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Online Resources
  • 5: Intuitionism, Particularism, and Virtue Ethics
  • Ross's Objection to Consequentialism and Kantian Ethics
  • Intuitionism in Normative Ethics

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