Description: INTRODUCTIONPART I. CONCEPTS OF GOODNESSA. Cognitivist Approaches1. G. E. Moore: The Subject-Matter of Ethics2. Roderick Firth: Ethical Absolutism and the Ideal ObserverB. Nonognitivist Approaches: Defense and Criticism3. A. J. Ayer: Critique of Ethics4. W. D. Ross: Critique of Ayer5. A. J. Ayer: Reply to Critics6. Allan Gibbard: Expressivism7. R. M. Hare: Selections from Descriptive Meaning and Principles8. Phillipa Foot: Moral BeliefsC. Kinds of Goodness9. Christine Korsgaard: Two Distinctions in GoodnessPART 11. WHAT THINGS ARE GOOD?A. Hedonism: Defense and Criticism10. Henry Sidgwick: Ultimate Good11. Robert Nozick: Value and PleasureB. The Desire-Satisfaction Theory: Defense and Criticism12. G. H. von Wright: The Good of Man13. Richard Kraut: Desire and the Human GoodC. Objectivist Theories14. G. E. Moore: The Ideal15. W. D. Ross: What things are Good? and Moral Goodness16. Thomas Hurka: Perfectionism17. Derek Parfit: What Makes Someone's Life Go Best?PART III. VIRTUES AND ETHICS18. G. E. M. Anscombe: Modern Moral Philosophy19. Phillipa Foot: Virtues and Vices20. Alasdair MacIntyre: The Nature of the VirtuesPART IV. REALISM VS. ANTI-REALISM21. J. L. Mackie: The Subjectivity of Values22. John McDowell: Values and Secondary Qualities23. Simon Blackburn: Errors and the Phenomenology of Value24. Nicholas Sturgeon: Moral ExplanationsPART V. VALUE AND OBLIGATION25. G. E. Moore: Results the Test of Right and Wrong26. J. J. C. Smart: Act-Utilitarianism and Rule-Utilitarianism27. Richard Brandt: The Real and Alleged Problems of Utilitarianism28. W. D. Ross: What Makes Right Acts Right?29. W. K. Frankena: Obligation and Motivation in Recent Moral Philosophy30. Robert M. Adams: A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical WrongnessPART VI. THE VALUE AND MEANING OF LIFE31. Leo Tolstoy: My Confession32. Paul Edwards: Meaning and Value of Life33. Norman Dahl: Morality and the Meaning of Life: Some First Thoughts34. Michael Slote: Goods and LivesBIBLIOGRAPHY ON CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL THEORYINDEX

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