Ethics Done Right: Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory

Millgram, Elijah

ISBN 10: 0521548268 / ISBN 13: 9780521548267

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ethics Done Right: Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521548268
• ISBN 13: 9780521548267
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Ethics Done Right examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory. Elijah Millgram demonstrates 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, Kantian ethics, virtue ethics, Hume's moral philosophy, and moral particularism. Unlike other studies of ethics, the book does not advocate a particular moral theory. Rather, it offers a tool that enables one to decide for oneself.

Book Description

Ethics Done Right examines how practical reasoning can be put into the sesrvice 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 utlilitariansim, in Kantian ethics, in virtue ethics, in Hume's moral philosophy, and in moral particularism.