Philosophical Ethics: An Historical And Contemporary Introduction (Dimensions of Philosophy Series) - Hardcover

Darwall, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813378591 ISBN 13: 9780813378596

Publisher: Westview Press, 1998

Synopsis

Why is ethics part of philosophy? Stephen Darwall's Philosophical Ethics introduces students to ethics from a distinctively philosophical perspective, one that weaves together central ethical questions such as What has value?” and What are our moral obligations?” with fundamental philosophical issues such as What is value?” and What can a moral obligation consist in?”With one eye on contemporary discussions and another on classical texts, Philosophical Ethics shows how Hobbes, Mill, Kant, Aristotle, and Nietzsche all did ethical philosophy how, for example, they sought to gain insight into what has value through understanding what value itself is. After an introductory section, and one on main approaches to metaethics, chapters discuss modern” philosophical moralists Hobbes, Mill, and Kant and pre- and postmodern philosophical approaches to ethics in Aristotle, Nietzsche, and the ethics of care.Throughout, the reader is invited to do rather than just read about philosophical ethics and, in doing so, to think through questions that face all thoughtful human beings. Themes include the nature of value and moral obligation, freedom and choice, human flourishing, excellence and merit, radical critiques of morality, and the importance of relationships for human life.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Darwall is professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and is the author of Impartial Reason and The British Moralists and the Internal Ought”: 1640 1740.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0813378591
• ISBN 13: 9780813378596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272