Research Catalog

Title

Making ethical decisions / [edited by] Norman E. Bowie.

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill, 1984, ©1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bowie, Norman E., 1942-

Description

xii, 371 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Ethics
• ethics (philosophy)
• Ethics
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Entscheidung
• Ethik
• Christelijke ethiek
• Moraal

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 365-371.

Contents

The myth of Gyges / Plato -- The virtue of selfishness : isn't everyone selfish? / Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden -- Ultimate principles and ethical egoism / Brian Medlin -- The supremacy of moral reasons / Kurt Baier -- The variability of moral judgments / Edward Westermarck -- The ethical implications of cultural relativity / Carl Wellman -- Relativism / John Hospers -- Normative ethical relativism / Paul W. Taylor -- Erewhon / Samuel Butler -- Beyond freedom and dignity / B.F. Skinner -- Freedom : an existential explanation / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Is "freewill" a pseudo-problem? / C.A. Campbell -- Euthyphro / Plato -- Is there such a thing as a teleological suspension of the ethical? / Søren Kierkegaard -- The enforcement of morals / Lord Patrick Devlin -- The preservation of morality / H.L.A. Hart -- Right and wrong / Charles Fried -- Ideals / R.M. Hare -- Social morality and individual ideal / P.F. Strawson -- Minimalist ethics / Daniel Callahan -- The necessity of rules for teaching morals / R.M. Hare -- The tyranny of principles / Stephen Toulmin -- The fundamental principles of ethics / Immanuel Kant -- Two concepts of rules / John Rawls -- Persons as ends / Immanuel Kant -- Respect for persons / Alan Donagan -- Servility and self-respect / Thomas E. Hill, Jr. -- Reasonable progress and self-respect / Virginia Held -- The nature and value of rights -- Joel Feinberg -- Human rights / Richard Wasserstrom -- The basis and content of human rights / Alan Gewirth -- The bogus distinction : "negative" rights and "positive" rights / Henry Shue -- Virtue / Aristotle -- Moral virtues / G.J. Warnock -- Why we need virtues / Peter Geach -- The nature of the virtues / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Justice / Aristotle -- Just institutions / John Rawls -- Justice and equality / Gregory Vlastos -- The priority of equality / Ronald Dworwin -- Of the principle of utility / Jeremy Bentham -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- Act-utilitarianism / J.J.C. Smart -- The concept of a pluralistic welfare-maximizing moral system / Richard B. Brandt -- Pride, shame, and responsibility / W.H. Walsh -- My station and its duties / F.H. Bradley -- Loyalty to loyalty / Josiah Royce -- Ethical responsibilities of engineers in large organizations : the Pinto case / Richard T. de George.

ISBN

• 0070067449
• 9780070067448

LCCN

84015422

OCLC

• ocm10998282
• 10998282
• SCSB-619023

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library