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The good in the right : a theory of intuition and intrinsic value / Robert Audi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xi, 244 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 069111434X
  • 9780691114347
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 171.2 21
LOC classification:
  • BJ1472 .A83 2004
Contents:
1. Early twentieth-century intuitionism -- Henry Sidgwick: three kinds of ethical intuitionism -- G.E. Moore as a philosophical intuitionist -- H.A. Prichard and the reassertion of dogmatic intuitionism -- C.D. Broad and the concept of fittingness -- W.D. Ross and the theory of prima facie duty -- Intuitions, intuitionism, and reflection -- 2. Rossian intuitionism as a contemporary ethical theory -- The Rossian appeal to self-evidence -- Two types of self-evidence -- Resources and varieties of moderate intuitionism -- Disagreement, incommensurability, and the charge of dogmatism -- Intuitive moral judgment and rational action -- 3. Kantian intuitionism -- The possibility of systematizing Rossian principles -- A Kantian integration of intuitionist principles -- Kantian intuitionism as a development of Kantian ethics -- Between the middle axioms and moral decision: the multiple grounds of obligation -- 4. Rightness and goodness -- Intrinsic value and the grounding of reasons for action -- Intrinsic value and prima facie duty -- The autonomy of ethics -- Deontological constraints and agent-relative reasons -- The unity problem for intuitionist ethics -- 5. Intuitionism in normative ethics -- Five methods in normative ethical reflection -- The need for middle theorems -- Some dimensions of beneficence -- Toward a comprehensive intuitionist ethics.
Review: "This book represents the most comprehensive account to date of an important but widely contested approach to ethics - intuitionism, the view that there is a plurality of moral principles, each of which we can know directly. Robert Audi casts intuitionism in a form that provides a major alternative to the more familiar ethical perspectives (utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian). He introduces intuitionism in its historical context and clarifies - and improves and defends - W. D. Ross's influential formulation. Bringing Ross out from under the shadow of G. E. Moore, he puts a reconstructed version of Rossian intuitionism on the map as a full-scale, plausible contemporary theory." "The Good in the Right is a self-contained original contribution, but readers interested in ethics or its history will find numerous connections with classical and contemporary literature. Written with clarity and concreteness, and with examples for every major point, it provides an ethical theory that is both intellectually cogent and plausible in application to moral problems."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-237) and index.

1. Early twentieth-century intuitionism -- Henry Sidgwick: three kinds of ethical intuitionism -- G.E. Moore as a philosophical intuitionist -- H.A. Prichard and the reassertion of dogmatic intuitionism -- C.D. Broad and the concept of fittingness -- W.D. Ross and the theory of prima facie duty -- Intuitions, intuitionism, and reflection -- 2. Rossian intuitionism as a contemporary ethical theory -- The Rossian appeal to self-evidence -- Two types of self-evidence -- Resources and varieties of moderate intuitionism -- Disagreement, incommensurability, and the charge of dogmatism -- Intuitive moral judgment and rational action -- 3. Kantian intuitionism -- The possibility of systematizing Rossian principles -- A Kantian integration of intuitionist principles -- Kantian intuitionism as a development of Kantian ethics -- Between the middle axioms and moral decision: the multiple grounds of obligation -- 4. Rightness and goodness -- Intrinsic value and the grounding of reasons for action -- Intrinsic value and prima facie duty -- The autonomy of ethics -- Deontological constraints and agent-relative reasons -- The unity problem for intuitionist ethics -- 5. Intuitionism in normative ethics -- Five methods in normative ethical reflection -- The need for middle theorems -- Some dimensions of beneficence -- Toward a comprehensive intuitionist ethics.

"This book represents the most comprehensive account to date of an important but widely contested approach to ethics - intuitionism, the view that there is a plurality of moral principles, each of which we can know directly. Robert Audi casts intuitionism in a form that provides a major alternative to the more familiar ethical perspectives (utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian). He introduces intuitionism in its historical context and clarifies - and improves and defends - W. D. Ross's influential formulation. Bringing Ross out from under the shadow of G. E. Moore, he puts a reconstructed version of Rossian intuitionism on the map as a full-scale, plausible contemporary theory." "The Good in the Right is a self-contained original contribution, but readers interested in ethics or its history will find numerous connections with classical and contemporary literature. Written with clarity and concreteness, and with examples for every major point, it provides an ethical theory that is both intellectually cogent and plausible in application to moral problems."--BOOK JACKET.

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