Moral Philosophy: Text and Readings [Second Edition]
Language: English
Published by Waveland Press, 1984
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- Title
- Moral Philosophy: Text and Readings [Second Edition]
- Author
- Andrew G. Oldenquist
- Publisher
- Waveland Press
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 088133104X
- ISBN 13
- 9780881331042
- Edition
- 4th Printing of 2nd Edition.
Each chapter tries to be an informative introduction to the topics named in its title. Nevertheless, my own interests and opinions get expressed, especially in the latter parts of `Rules and Consequences,` `Universalizing,` `Morality and Self-interest,` `Ethical Relativism,` and `Religion and Morality.` Where my views appear they are offered quite openly as hypotheses and suggestions after the problems have been laid out, and I think there is little danger of their masquerading as received doctrine. In any event, I think I can rely on instructors to tell students where their textbook author is being `objective` and where he has gone mad.
Writers who are not professional philosophers are seldom represented on ethical subjects other than casuistry. In the anthology I offer two such `nonprofessionals`: the psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg, whose `stages of moral development` greatly influenced the field of moral education; and the sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson, whose discussion of hypotheses about the evolution of altruism should, in my opinion, be read by every moral philosopher. In the textbook I offer a third: the novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand (whose actual writings I could not reprint). Most moral philosophers discuss and attempt to refute ethical egoism but rarely, if at all, come up with a genuine ethical egoist to discuss. Ayn Rand is, I think, the best representative of ethical egoism, and in Chapter 5 ethical egoism is discussed and appraised in the light of her theory.
Some of the selections-for example, those from Hume, Butler, Kant, Toulmln, Hare, and Wilson-are explained and discussed at length in the textbook; several are discussed less extensively; and Searle, Foot, and Kohlberg are not discussed. Anthologized authors who get more than passing mention in the textbook (with some inaccuracy I include Rand in this category) are mentioned in the table of contents and are introduced in boldface type where discussion of their work begins in the textbook. Short bibliographies are appended to the biographical sketches of the anthologized authors, and there is an index to the textbook at the end of the book.
The author and the publisher are grateful for the assistance of those who made professional reviews of the manuscript. These review¬ers, to whom we give thanks, were Theodore M. Benditt, University of Southern California; Ronald L. Burnside, Sinclair Community College; Leslie P. Francis, University of Utah; John Kearney, Saint Joseph`s College (Philadelphia); Anthony J. Lisska, Denison University; Paul Seman, Sinclair Community College; and Arnulf Zweig, University of Oregon. The author is grateful to Kenneth Long, Ohio State University, for excellent and good-humored indexing
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