Ethical theory : classical and contemporary readings / [edited by] Louis P. Pojman.

Includes bibliographical references.

Socratic morality: Crito / Plato -- Custom is king / Herodotus -- Objectivism: natural law / Thomas Aquinas -- A defense of ethical relativism / Ruth Benedict -- A critique of ethical relativism / Louis Pojman -- Moral relativism defended / Gilbert Harman -- The objective status of human rights / Alan Gewirth -- A critique of Gewirth and the notion of rights / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Why be moral? / Plato -- On the Socratic dilemma / Richard Taylor -- Morality and advantage / David Gauthier -- A reconciliation project / Gregory Kavka -- Later selves and moral principles / Derek Parfit -- Persons, character, and morality / Bernard Williams -- Classical hedonism / Jeremy Bentham -- The experience machine / Robert Nozick -- Value and the origin of right and wrong / Richard Taylor -- The transvaluation of values / Friedrich Nietzsche -- What makes someone's life go best? / Derek Parfit -- Value: the view from nowhere / Thomas Nagel -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- Extreme and restricted utilitarianism / J.J.C. Smart -- Against moral conservatism / Kai Nielsen -- Against utilitarianism / Bernard Williams -- Rule-utilitarianism / John Hospers -- Side constraints / Robert Nozick -- Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer -- The foundation for the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant -- What makes right acts right? / W.D. Ross -- Kantian formula of the end in itself and world hunger / Onora O'Neill -- Moral luck / Thomas Nagel -- Morality as a system of hypothetical imperatives / Philippa Foot -- Killing, letting die, and the trolley problem / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- The leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- Why contractarianism? / David Gauthier -- Liberal contractualism: justice as fairness / John Rawls -- Contractualism and utilitarianism / T. M. Scanlon -- The ethics of virtue / Aristotle -- Virtue and the moral life / Bernard Mayo -- A critique of virtue-based ethics / William Frankena -- Are virtues no more than dispositions to obey moral rules? / Walter Schaller -- The nature of virtues / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Moral saints / Susan Wolf -- In defense of moral saints / Louis P. Pojman -- On reason and the emotions: the fact/value distinction / David Hume -- Non-naturalism / G. E. Moore -- Emotivism / A. J. Ayer -- Prescriptivism: the structure of ethics and morals / R. M. Hare -- The object of morality / Geoffrey Warnock -- The subjectivity of values / J.L. Mackie -- A critique of Mackie's error theory / Jonathan Harrison -- Moral nihilism / Gilbert Harman -- Moral explanations / Nicholas Sturgeon -- Ethics and the limits of philosophy / Bernard Williams -- Two forms of ethical skepticism / Bruce Russell -- A defense of moral realism / Michael Smith -- Morality and religion / Plato -- God and immortality as necessary postulates of morality / Immanuel Kant -- Religion and the queerness of morality / George Mavrodes -- Ethics without God / Kai Nielsen -- Ethics and the descent of man / Charles Darwin -- Sociobiology and ethics / E.O. Wilson -- Evolution and ethics: the sociobiological approach / Michael Ruse -- Prospects for an evolutionary ethics / Elliot Sober -- The law of the jungle: evolution and morality / J.L. Mackie -- The impossibility of moral responsibility / Galen Strawson -- Free will, determinism, and moral responsibility: a response to Galen Strawson / Louis P. Pojman -- Libertarianism: a defense of free will / Richard Taylor.

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