Sidgwick's the methods of ethics

• Verfasst von: Phillips, David [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Sidgwick's the methods of ethics
• Titelzusatz: a guide
• Verf.angabe: David Phillips
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: 254 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford guides to philosophy series
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753962-0
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753961-3
• Schlagwörter: (t)Sidgwick, Henry / The methods of ethics
• Schlagwörter: (s)Ethik
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1801696438

Abstract

"This book, included in the Oxford Guides series, is a concise guide to Henry Sidgwick's masterpiece The Methods of Ethics. The book is written for undergraduate students and interested general readers and designed to be read alongside Sidgwick's text. Its principal aims are to help readers to navigate through the text, and to raise the most significant interpretive and philosophical issues about Sidgwick's views and arguments. It highlights important connections between Sidgwick's work and work in contemporary moral philosophy and in the history of moral philosophy. Particular attention is paid to his relations to predecessors he discusses, including Kant and Mill, and to Moore and Ross, his most celebrated successors in the British intuitionist tradition he revitalized. At the end of the first eight chapters there are brief suggestions for further reading. At the end of the final three chapters, when all relevant parts of the Methods have been discussed, there are more substantial overviews of the secondary literature on the aspects of Sidgwick's work that have generated the most interest among his commentators: metaethics and moral epistemology; consequentialism versus deontology; and egoism and the dualism of practical reason"--