Reading Ethics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary: 7 (Reading Philosophy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405124741 ISBN 13: 9781405124744

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Synopsis

This text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings.

• This text encourages students to engage with ethical issues through a series of classic and contemporary readings
• Readings are accompanied by interactive commentary from the editors
• Inspires students to think about the nature of moral philosophy and to draw comparisons between different traditions
• Themes include: the nature of goodness, subjectivity and objectivity, justice and virtue, moral motivation, moral obligation, and literature as moral philosophy
• Readings range from Plato’s Republic to Rawls’ A Theory of Justice

About this title

About the Author

Miranda Fricker is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck, London. She is the author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2006), and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy (2007).

Samuel Guttenplan is Professor in Philosophy at Birkbeck, London. He is author of Mind’s Landscape (Blackwell Publishing, 2000), and The Languages of Logic (Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 1997), editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind (Blackwell Publishing, 1995) and executive editor of the journal Mind & Language. His book Objects of Metaphor was published in 2005.

From the Back Cover

This introductory text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings. It will inspire students to think about the distinctive nature of moral philosophy, and to draw comparisons between different traditions of thought, between ancient and modern philosophies, and between theoretical and literary writing about the place of value in human life.

Each of the book’s six chapters focuses on a particular theme: the nature of goodness, subjectivity and objectivity in ethical thinking, justice and virtue, moral motivation, the place of moral obligation, and the idea that literature can be a form of moral philosophy. The historical readings come from Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant and Mill; and the contemporary readings from Foot, Rawls, McDowell, Mackie, Nagel, Williams, Nussbaum and Gaita.

The editors’ introductions to the themes, and the interactive commentaries they provide for each reading, are intended to make Reading Ethics come as close as possible to a seminar in philosophy.

Each of the book’s six chapters focuses on a particular theme: the nature of goodness, subjectivity and objectivity in ethical thinking, justice and virtue, moral motivation, the place of moral obligation, and the idea that literature can be a form of moral philosophy. The historical readings come from Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant and Mill; and the contemporary readings from Foot, Rawls, McDowell, Mackie, Nagel, Williams, Nussbaum and Gaita.

The editors’ introductions to the themes, and the interactive commentaries they provide for each reading, are intended to make Reading Ethics come as close as possible to a seminar in philosophy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405124741
• ISBN 13: 9781405124744
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Fricker Miranda, Guttenplan Samuel