The Routledge companion to ethics / / edited by John Skorupski

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (877 p.)
• Disciplina: 170
• Soggetto topico: Ethics; Philosophy
• Altri autori: SkorupskiJohn <1946->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; Part I: HISTORY; 1 ETHICAL THOUGHT IN CHINA; 2 ETHICAL THOUGHT IN INDIA; 3 SOCRATES AND PLATO; 4 ARISTOTLE; 5 LATER ANCIENT ETHICS; 6 THE ARABIC TRADITION; 7 EARLY MODERN NATURAL LAW; 8 HOBBES; 9 ETHICS AND REASON; 10 ETHICS AND SENTIMENT: Shaftesbury and Hutcheson; 11 HUME; 12 ADAM SMITH; 13 UTILITARIANISM TO BENTHAM; 14 KANT; 15 HEGEL; 16 JOHN STUART MILL; 17 SIDGWICK, GREEN, AND BRADLEY; 18 NIETZSCHE; 19 PRAGMATIST MORAL PHILOSOPHY; 20 EXISTENTIALISM; 21 HEIDEGGER; Part II: META-ETHICS ; 22 ETHICS, SCIENCE, AND RELIGION23 FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY; 24 REASONS FOR ACTION; 25 THE OPEN QUESTION ARGUMENT; 26 REALISM AND ITS ALTERNATIVES; 27 NON-COGNITIVISM; 28 ERROR THEORY AND FICTIONALISM; 29 COGNITIVISM WITHOUT REALISM; 30 RELATIVISM; Part III: IDEAS AND METHODS FROM OUTSIDE ETHICS; 31 SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY; 32 ETHICS AND PSYCHOLOGY; 33 BIOLOGY; 34 FORMAL METHODS IN ETHICS; 35 ETHICS AND LAW; Part IV: PERSPECTIVES IN ETHICS; 36 REASONS, VALUES, AND MORALITY; 37 CONSEQUENTIALISM; 38 CONTEMPORARY KANTIAN ETHICS; 39 ETHICAL INTUITIONISM; 40 VIRTUE ETHICS; 41 CONTRACTUALISM ; 42 CONTEMPORARY NATURAL LAW THEORY43 FEMINIST ETHICS; 44 ETHICS AND AESTHETICS; Part V: MORALITY; 45 MORALITY AND ITS CRITICS; 46 CONSCIENCE; 47 RESPECT AND RECOGNITION; 48 BLAME, REMORSE, MERCY, FORGIVENESS; 49 EVIL; 50 RESPONSIBILITY: Intention and consequence; 51 RESPONSIBILITY: Act and omission; 52 PARTIALITY AND IMPARTIALITY; 53 MORAL PARTICULARISM; Part VI: DEBATES IN ETHICS; (i) GOALS AND IDEALS; 54 WELFARE; 55 IDEALS OF PERFECTION; (ii) JUSTICE; 56 RIGHTS; 57 JUSTICE AND PUNISHMENT; 58 JUSTICE AND DISTRIBUTION; (iii) HUMAN LIFE; 59 LIFE, DEATH, AND ETHICS; 60 ENDING LIFE ; (iv) OUR WORLD61 POPULATION ETHICS; 62 ANIMALS; 63 THE ENVIRONMENT; (v) CURRENT ISSUES; 64 THE ETHICS OF FREE SPEECH; 65 THE ETHICS OF RESEARCH; 66 WORLD POVERTY; 67 WAR; 68 TORTURE AND TERRORISM; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The Routledge Companion to Ethics is an outstanding survey of the whole field of ethics by a distinguished international team of contributors. Over 60 chapters are divided into six clear sections: the history of ethicsmeta-ethicsperspectives from outside ethicsethical perspectivesmoralitydebates in ethics.The Companion opens with a comprehensive historical overview of ethics, including chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Hume, and Kant, and ethical thinking in China, India and t
• Titolo autorizzato: The Routledge companion to ethics
• ISBN: 1-136-96421-5; 1-136-96422-3; 1-282-65637-6; 1-78034-810-X; 9786612656378; 0-203-85070-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910960767303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge philosophy companions.