Morality and the Good Life An Introduction to Ethics Through Classical Sources
- New Delhi Tata Mcgraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd 1999
- 479p
includes index and biblioraphy
WHAT IS ETHICS? THE HISTORY OF ETHICS ETHICAL QUESTIONS What Is the Good Life? Why Be Good?-The Problem of Justification Why Be Rational?-The Place of Reason in Ethics Which Is Right?-Ethical Dilemmas ETHICAL CONCEPTS Universality Prudence and Morals Happiness and the Good Egoism and Altruism Virtue and the Virtues Facts and Values Justice and Equality Rights and Duties ETHICAL THEORIES AND APPROACHES Teleology Utilitarianism Kant and Deontology Feminist Ethics Social Contract Theory Ethical Relativism Pluralism and History: Ethics Today 1 Plato CRITO THE REPUBLIC What Is Justice?: Books I, II, and IV The Myth of the Cave: From Book VII Study Questions 2 Aristotle THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS The Goal of Human Activity: From Book I Moral Virtue: From Book II Questions about Action: From Book III The Intellectual Virtues and the Practical Syllogism:From Book VI Incontinence (Akrasia): From Book VII Friendship: From Books VIII and IX Pleasure and Happiness: From Book X Study Questions 3 Saint Augustine THE CITY OF GOD The City of God: From Books XIV, XIX, and XXII The Problem of Evil: From Books V and XIV Study Questions 4 Thomas Hobbes LEVIATHAN Of the Interior Beginnings of Voluntary Motions Commonly Called the Passions and Speeches by Which They Are Expressed Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery Of the First and Second Natural Laws and of Contracts Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth Of the Liberty of Subjects Study Questions 5 David Hume TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE On Virtue and Vice in General AN INQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS Of the General Principles of Morals, Benevolence,and Justice: Sections I, II, and III Why Utility Pleases: From Section V Virtue, Approval, and Self-Love: From Section IX and Appendix II Study Questions 6 Immanuel Kant GROUNDING FOR THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS Empirical and A Priori Ethics: Preface The Rational Basis of Morality: From Section 1 The Categorical Imperative: From Section 2 Freedom and Autonomy: From Section 3 Study Questions 7 John Stuart Mill UTILITARIANISM Happiness and the Summum Bonum: Chapter 1 What Utilitarianism Is: Chapter 2 The Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility: Chapter 3 The "Proof of Utilitarianism: Chapter 4 Justice and Utility: Chapter 5 Study Questions 8 Friedrich Nietzsche THE GAY SCIENCE THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL The Natural History of Morals What Is Noble? ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS "Good and Evil"; "Good and Bad" "Guilt," "Bad Conscience," and Related Matters TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS Morality as Anti-Nature THE ANTICHRIST Revaluation of All Values THE WILL TO POWER Study Questions 9 Albert Camus THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS An Absurd Reasoning The Myth of Sisyphus (Told by Camus) THE STRANGER The "After Life": From Chapter 5 Study Questions 10 Jean-Paul Sartre EXISTENTIALISM IS A HUMANISM BEING AND NOTHINGNESS Bad Faith Freedom and Responsibility Study Questions 11 John Rawls A THEORY OF JUSTICE Justice as Fairness Goodness as Rationality The Sense of Justice Study Questions