A rare academic study on what John Rawls, Peter Singer and Derek Parfit acknowledge as the finest book in ethics – The Methods of Ethics. With a rather shocking conclusion that ‘none of us can match Sidgwick’, Mariko Nakano-Okuno lucidly analyzes Henry Sidgwick’s impacts on contemporary ethics.
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Introduction PART I: SIDGWICK’S THEORY OF ETHICS The Scope of Ethics An Overview of The Methods of Ethics Three Methods, Intuition, and Common Sense Meta-Ethical Analyses Testing the Significance of Apparent Truths The Three Fundamental Principles Philosophical Foundations of Utilitarianism PART II: A RE-EXAMINATION OF CONTEMPORARY UTILITARIANISM An Approach Not Appealing to Moral Intuition A Reappraisal of Hedonism Interpersonal Comparison and Maximization Reconciling the Dualism of the Practical Reason Concluding Chapter Notes Bibliography IndexCirca l’autore
MARIKO NAKANO-OKUNO is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University, USA, and an award-winning philosopher/author in Japan. Her work includes ‘Sidgwick and Kant: On the So-called ‘Discrepancies’ between Utilitarian and Kantian Ethics, ‘ inHenry Sidgwick: Happiness and Religion, edited by Bucolo, Crisp & Schultz (2007).
Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 270 ● ISBN 9780230342941 ● Dimensione 1.8 MB ● Casa editrice Palgrave Macmillan UK ● Città London ● Paese GB ● Pubblicato 2011 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 4969254 ● Protezione dalla copia DRM sociale