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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