The book features a comprehensive table of contents that organizes its various topics and themes, providing readers with a clear roadmap of the material covered. Each section is designed to guide readers through the content systematically, ensuring a structured approach to the subject matter. The layout enhances accessibility and understanding, making it easier for readers to navigate through the information presented.
The book offers a comprehensive introduction to ethics through forty-two carefully selected readings from both historical and contemporary philosophers, including Aristotle, Kant, and Singer. Organized into four parts, it covers foundational ethical theories and a variety of moral issues, making it suitable for introductory courses. Each essay is accompanied by detailed introductions that provide essential context, enhancing students' understanding of complex ethical concepts and dilemmas.
The book presents a systematic defense of objective moral standards, asserting that certain moral principles exist independently of personal beliefs. Russ Shafer-Landau's central thesis challenges prevailing views in ethics, offering novel arguments that are likely to provoke debate among scholars and readers interested in the foundations of moral philosophy.
This text carefully reconstructs and analyzes dozens of arguments in depth, and introduces students to the essential ideas of moral philosophy. Offering more comprehensive coverage of the good life, normative ethics, and metaethics than any other text of its kind, this book also addressesissues that are often omitted from other texts, such as the doctrine of doing and allowing, the doctrine of double effect, and more.Ideal for courses in introductory ethics and contemporary moral problems, this book can be used as a stand-alone text or with the author's companion reader, The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems, Third Edition.
The book features a detailed table of contents, outlining the structure and key topics covered within its pages. Each section is organized to provide clear guidance on the material, allowing readers to navigate through various themes and subjects effectively. The contents serve as a roadmap for understanding the book's focus and the progression of ideas presented.
Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field.