{"product_id":"moral-theory-9780631219033","title":"Moral Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis text sets out the basic system used to solve moral problems, the system that consequentialists deride as \"traditional morality\" and which they believe is \"dead\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oderberg's discussion of [the] issues is rich and thought provoking. [The] work is, even for non-believers, an important and engaging statement of non-consequentialist moral theory\" \u003ci\u003eKaspar Lippert-Rasmussen, The Philosophical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 51, no. 204, July 2001.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Oderberg writes clearly and with precision in a way that is neither patronising, popularist, or difficult.... His is a serious look at what's gone wrong in recent moral philosophy and at how we ought to recast our theories. As such it offers no feel good John Lennon 'Imagine' type view of the changed world. What it does instead is to remind us of a strangely misplaced aim to morality, that of living the good life, of simply being or trying to be a good and whole person....This is a book that throws a new light in a new direction on an old subject and as such should be widely read by both those in the business of philosophy and, perhaps equally importantly, by those outside the academic circles.\" \u003ci\u003eReviewed by Ashley Harrold, bookseller at Blackwell's Bookshop, King's Road Reading\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMoral Theory\u003c\/i\u003e ... provides a welcome alternative to current debates dominated by the consequentialist approach\" \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Ethics, Knowledge and Action.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Ethics and Knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fact-Value Distinction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelativism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrescriptivism and Expressivism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Ethics and Action.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Basic Concepts in Moral Theory I.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 The Good.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Virtue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Rights and Duties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Rights and Contracts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Rights and Consequentialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.7 Collision of Rights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Basic Concepts in Moral Theory II.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Intention and Foresight.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGood, Evil and the Will.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Principle of Double Effect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCriticisms of PDE and Replies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Acts and Omissions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnother Derided Distinction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInitial Clarifications of AOD.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Derided Distinction Defended.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Close-Up on the Good of Life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Life as a Good.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 The Right to Life and the Sanctity of Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 The Sanctity of Life and its Critics:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInnocence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Life Not Worth Living?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Persons and Human Beings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes and Further Reading.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403432304983,"sku":"9780631219033","price":36.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631219033.jpg?v=1730483456","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/moral-theory-9780631219033","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}