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Book SynopsisThis volume brings three forms - Kantian ethics, consequentialism and virtue ethics - of ethical theory into critical relationship, and it does so in terms that should engage current philosophical debate and yet be clear enough for undergraduates.
Trade Review"An unprecedented three-way conversation between forceful representatives of the three major traditions in ethical philosophy."
Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan "An outstanding resource: a book which students beginning to think about normative ethical theory, and their teachers, simply must read." Michael Smith, Australian National University
"This is a superb book by three moral philosophers who really know their stuff; lively, lucid and highly engaging." John Fischer, University of California, Riverside
"This book, which brings together leading protagonists of the three approaches to ethics currently dominant, is definitely one of the best in ethics for 1997. It will provide any reader (whether student, teacher, or 'researcher') with not only an excellent 'big picture' of this important area of debate, but also much philosophical detail to chew over." Steven Tudor, University of Melbourne, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Kantian Ethics
Marcia Baron
1. Introduction
2. Consequentalism versus Kantian Ethics
3. Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics
4. Further Objections to Kantian Ethics
Part II: The Consequentialist Perspective
Philip Pettit
5. A Moral Psychology for Consequentialists and Non-consequentialists
6. The Question of Rightness
7. Different Answers to the Question of Rightness
8. In Favour of the Consequentialist Answer to the Question of Rightness
9. The Tenability of the Consequentialist Answer
Part III: Virtue Ethics
Michael Slote
10. What is Virtue Ethics?
11. Theory versus Anti-theory
12. Virtue Ethics versus Kantian and Common-sense Morality
13. Common-sense Virtue Ethics versus Consequentialism
14. Further Aspects of Common-sense virtual Ethics
15. Making Sense of Agent-based Virtue Ethics
16. Morality as Inner Strength
17. Morality as Universal Benevolence
18. Morality as Caring
19. Agent-basing and Applied Ethics
20. Conclusion: Comparisons within Virtue Ethics
Part IV: Reply to Pettit and Slote
Marcia Baron
21. Reply to Pettit
22. Reply to Stote
Part V: Reply to Baron and Stote
Phillip Pettit
23. Rival Theories?
24. Comment on Slote
25. Comment on Baron
Part VI: Reply to Baron and Pettit
Michael Slote
26. Reply to Baron
27. Reply to Pettit
28. Virtue Politics
Index.
