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Author Attfield, Robin.
Title Ethics : an overview / Robin Attfield.
Publication Info London : Continuum, c2012.


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Descript x, 262 p.
Contents Preface \ Acknowledgements \ List of Abbreviations \ 1. History of Ethics \ Aristotle on Eudaemonia and Virtue\ Some Themes from Hobbes and Hume\ Some Kantian Themes \ John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism \ 2. Value-Theory and the Good Life \ Pleasure, Happiness and Flourishing \ Moral Standing, Value and Intrinsic Value \ Worthwhile Life, Self-Respect and Meaningful Work \ The Good Life, Needs, Virtue and Morality \ 3. Normative Ethics \ Moral Standing, Value, Rights and Rightness \ Consequentialism and Its Critics \ Deontology, Contractarianism and Consequentialism \ Virtue Ethics \ Practice-Consequentialism and Virtue-Consequentialism \ 4. Applied Ethics \ The Re-emergence of Applied Ethics \ Medical Ethics \ Animal Ethics \ Development Ethics \ Environmental Ethics \ The Ethics of War \ 5. Meta-Ethics \ Non-cognitivism, Projectivism and Prescriptivism \ 'Good', 'Ought' and Morality \ Cognitivism and Realism \ Internalism, Externalism and Practicality \ Naturalism and Non-naturalism \ 6. Free Will and Responsibility \ Responsibility, Character and Determinism \ Laws of Nature, 'Ought' and 'Can' \ Evolution, Randomness, 'Could' and 'Would' \ The Future Is Open \ Index
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781441135100 (e-book)
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Author Attfield, Robin.
Subject Ethics.
Descript x, 262 p.
Contents Preface \ Acknowledgements \ List of Abbreviations \ 1. History of Ethics \ Aristotle on Eudaemonia and Virtue\ Some Themes from Hobbes and Hume\ Some Kantian Themes \ John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism \ 2. Value-Theory and the Good Life \ Pleasure, Happiness and Flourishing \ Moral Standing, Value and Intrinsic Value \ Worthwhile Life, Self-Respect and Meaningful Work \ The Good Life, Needs, Virtue and Morality \ 3. Normative Ethics \ Moral Standing, Value, Rights and Rightness \ Consequentialism and Its Critics \ Deontology, Contractarianism and Consequentialism \ Virtue Ethics \ Practice-Consequentialism and Virtue-Consequentialism \ 4. Applied Ethics \ The Re-emergence of Applied Ethics \ Medical Ethics \ Animal Ethics \ Development Ethics \ Environmental Ethics \ The Ethics of War \ 5. Meta-Ethics \ Non-cognitivism, Projectivism and Prescriptivism \ 'Good', 'Ought' and Morality \ Cognitivism and Realism \ Internalism, Externalism and Practicality \ Naturalism and Non-naturalism \ 6. Free Will and Responsibility \ Responsibility, Character and Determinism \ Laws of Nature, 'Ought' and 'Can' \ Evolution, Randomness, 'Could' and 'Would' \ The Future Is Open \ Index
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781441135100 (e-book)
Author Attfield, Robin.
Subject Ethics.

Subject Ethics.
Descript x, 262 p.
Contents Preface \ Acknowledgements \ List of Abbreviations \ 1. History of Ethics \ Aristotle on Eudaemonia and Virtue\ Some Themes from Hobbes and Hume\ Some Kantian Themes \ John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism \ 2. Value-Theory and the Good Life \ Pleasure, Happiness and Flourishing \ Moral Standing, Value and Intrinsic Value \ Worthwhile Life, Self-Respect and Meaningful Work \ The Good Life, Needs, Virtue and Morality \ 3. Normative Ethics \ Moral Standing, Value, Rights and Rightness \ Consequentialism and Its Critics \ Deontology, Contractarianism and Consequentialism \ Virtue Ethics \ Practice-Consequentialism and Virtue-Consequentialism \ 4. Applied Ethics \ The Re-emergence of Applied Ethics \ Medical Ethics \ Animal Ethics \ Development Ethics \ Environmental Ethics \ The Ethics of War \ 5. Meta-Ethics \ Non-cognitivism, Projectivism and Prescriptivism \ 'Good', 'Ought' and Morality \ Cognitivism and Realism \ Internalism, Externalism and Practicality \ Naturalism and Non-naturalism \ 6. Free Will and Responsibility \ Responsibility, Character and Determinism \ Laws of Nature, 'Ought' and 'Can' \ Evolution, Randomness, 'Could' and 'Would' \ The Future Is Open \ Index
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781441135100 (e-book)
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