Ethics Done Right
Ethics Done Right
Ethics Done Right examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory. Elijah Millgram shows that the key to thinking about ethics is to understand generally how to make decisions. The papers in this volume support a methodological approach and trace the connections between two kinds of theory in utilitarianism, in Kantian ethics, in virtue ethics, in Hume's moral philosophy, and in moral particularism. Unlike other studies of ethics, Ethics Done Right does not advocate a particular moral theory. Rather, it offers a tool that enables one to decide for oneself.
- Covers three main types of moral theory (and a couple of exotic ones)
- Explores the foundations of ethics but not metaethics
- Connects practical reasoning and moral theory
Reviews & endorsements
'There is much to admire about Millgram's book. It is entertainingly written, has an unusual take on familiar issues and is always insightful and interesting. Anyone interested in ethics or practical reason will find it very rewarding.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Product details
November 2005Paperback
9780521548267
356 pages
229 × 153 × 21 mm
0.483kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: the method of practical reasoning
- 2. What's the use of utility?
- 3. Mill's proof of the principle of utility
- 4. Does the categorical imperative give rise to a contradiction in the will? 5. Reasonably virtuous
- 6. Murdoch, practical reasoning, and particularism
- 7. Was Hume a Humean? 8. Hume on 'is' and 'ought'
- 9. Hume, political noncognitivism, and the history of England
- 10. Incommensurability and practical reasoning
- 11. Commensurability in perspective
- 12. Varieties of practical reasoning and varieties of moral theory.
