Sidgwick's the Methods of Ethics: A Guide (Oxford Guides to Philosophy) - Softcover

Phillips, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0197539629 ISBN 13: 9780197539620

Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics has been a central part of the utilitarian canon since its publication in 1874. This book, part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series, is a concise companion to Sidgwick's masterpiece, written primarily to aid advanced undergraduate students and interested general readers in navigating and interpreting the original text. Author David Phillips connects Sidgwick's work to work in contemporary moral philosophy and in the history of moral philosophy, paying particular attention to his relationships with key predecessors, including Kant and Mill, and with Moore and Ross, his most influential successors in the British intuitionist tradition.

The book's first eight chapters end with brief suggestions for further reading. At the end of the final three chapters there are more substantial overviews of the secondary literature on the aspects of Sidgwick's work that have generated the most interest among his commentators: metaethics and moral epistemology; consequentialism versus deontology; and egoism and the dualism of practical reason. The result is an Oxford Guide that will be a helpful resource for both students and scholars.

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David Phillips is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston. His research interests are in ethics and the history of ethics with a particular focus on British moral philosophers. He is the author of Sidgwickian Ethics (OUP, 2011) and of Rossian Ethics: W.D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory (OUP, 2019).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0197539629
• ISBN 13: 9780197539620
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254
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