Description: INTRODUCTIONPART I. CONCEPTS OF GOODNESSA. Cognitivist Approaches1.. The Subject-Matter of Ethics2.. Ethical Absolutism and the Ideal ObserverB. Nonognitivist Approaches: Defense and Criticism3.. Critique of Ethics4.. Critique of Ayer5.. Reply to Critics6.. Expressivism7.. Selections from Descriptive Meaning and Principles8.. Moral BeliefsC. Kinds of Goodness9.. Two Distinctions in GoodnessPART 11. WHAT THINGS ARE GOOD?A. Hedonism: Defense and Criticism10.. Ultimate Good11.. Value and PleasureB. The Desire-Satisfaction Theory: Defense and Criticism12.. The Good of Man13.. Desire and the Human GoodC. Objectivist Theories14.. The Ideal15.. What things are Good? and Moral Goodness16.. Perfectionism17.. What Makes Someone's Life Go Best?PART III. VIRTUES AND ETHICS18.. Modern Moral Philosophy19.. Virtues and Vices20.. The Nature of the VirtuesPART IV. REALISM VS. ANTI-REALISM21.. The Subjectivity of Values22.. Values and Secondary Qualities23.. Errors and the Phenomenology of Value24.. Moral ExplanationsPART V. VALUE AND OBLIGATION25.. Results the Test of Right and Wrong26.. Act-Utilitarianism and Rule-Utilitarianism27.. The Real and Alleged Problems of Utilitarianism28.. What Makes Right Acts Right?29.. Obligation and Motivation in Recent Moral Philosophy30.. A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical WrongnessPART VI. THE VALUE AND MEANING OF LIFE31.. My Confession32.. Meaning and Value of Life33.. Morality and the Meaning of Life: Some First Thoughts34.. Goods and LivesBIBLIOGRAPHY ON CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL THEORYINDEX

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