Description: INTRODUCTION PART I. CONCEPTS OF GOODNESS A. Cognitivist Approaches 1. The Subject-Matter of Ethics, G. E. Moore 2. Ethical Absolutism and the Ideal Observer, Roderick Firth B. Nonognitivist Approaches: Defense and Criticism 3. Critique of Ethics, A. J. Ayer 4. Critique of Ayer, W. D. Ross 5. Reply to Critics, A. J. Ayer 6. Expressivism, Allan Gibbard 7. Selections from Descriptive Meaning and Principles, R. M. Hare 8. Moral Beliefs, Phillipa Foot C. Kinds of Goodness 9. Two Distinctions in Goodness, Christine Korsgaard PART 11. WHAT THINGS ARE GOOD? A. Hedonism: Defense and Criticism 10. Ultimate Good, Henry Sidgwick 11. Value and Pleasure, Robert Nozick B. The Desire-Satisfaction Theory: Defense and Criticism 12. The Good of Man, G. H. von Wright 13. Desire and the Human Good, Richard Kraut C. Objectivist Theories 14. The Ideal, G. E. Moore 15. What things are Good? and Moral Goodness, W. D. Ross 16. Perfectionism, Thomas Hurka 17. What Makes Someone's Life Go Best?, Derek Parfit PART III. VIRTUES AND ETHICS 18. Modern Moral Philosophy, G. E. M. Anscombe 19. Virtues and Vices, Phillipa Foot 20. The Nature of the Virtues, Alasdair MacIntyre PART IV. REALISM VS. ANTI-REALISM 21. The Subjectivity of Values, J. L. Mackie 22. Values and Secondary Qualities, John McDowell 23. Errors and the Phenomenology of Value, Simon Blackburn 24. Moral Explanations, Nicholas Sturgeon PART V. VALUE AND OBLIGATION 25. Results the Test of Right and Wrong, G. E. Moore 26. Act-Utilitarianism and Rule-Utilitarianism, J. J. C. Smart 27. The Real and Alleged Problems of Utilitarianism, Richard Brandt 28. What Makes Right Acts Right?, W. D. Ross 29. Obligation and Motivation in Recent Moral Philosophy, W. K. Frankena 30. A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical Wrongness, Robert M. Adams PART VI. THE VALUE AND MEANING OF LIFE 31. My Confession, Leo Tolstoy 32. Meaning and Value of Life, Paul Edwards 33. Morality and the Meaning of Life: Some First Thoughts, Norman Dahl 34. Goods and Lives, Michael Slote BIBLIOGRAPHY ON CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL THEORY INDEX

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