Ethics

Allen Phillips-Griffiths

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781009107716
• eBook ISBN: 9781009117173
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Ethical questions are often associated with practical dilemmas: questions in morality, in other words. This volume, by contrast, asks questions about morality: what it is, and to what it owes its precarious authority over us. The focus on metaethics is sustained throughout, via a wide range of philosophical perspectives. Distinguished luminaries who include R. M. Hare and Bernard Williams address keenly debated issues such as what constitutes morality in politics; the relationship between education and ethical standards; and whether or not morality can indeed be defined at all. As Nikhil Krishnan writes in his elegant Foreword, 'The plain-speaking, essayistic grace of these essays, speaks nevertheless of the possibility of moral philosophy, written with an eye to a listener, very possibly not a professional philosopher, who has the right to say, ''This is all very well, your neat little theory, but it doesn't ring true. Things are more complicated than that.'''

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright Information
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• List of Contributors
• Objective Prescriptions
• Integrity and Self-Identity
• The Better Part
• Invincible Knowledge
• Emmanuel Levinas: Responsibility and Election
• Ethical Absolutism and Education
• Morals and Politics
• Duties and Virtues
• The Definition of Morality
• Ethics, Fantasy and Self-transformation
• How We Do Ethics Now
• Justice without Constitutive Luck
• Who Needs Ethical Knowledge?
• Institutional Ethics
• References
• Index