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The cosmos of duty : Henry Sidgwick's Methods of ethics / Roger Crisp

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Crisp, Roger, 1961-
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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First edition.
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Machine generated contents note: 1.The Nature of Ethics -- 1.Sidgwick's Project -- 2.The Autonomy of Ethics -- 2.1.Cognitivism and Non-naturalist Quietism -- 2.2.Is and Ought -- 2.3.Ought and Rationality -- 3.Moral Motivation -- 4.Principles and Methods -- 5.Sidgwick's Three Methods -- 6.Ethics and Politics -- 2.Free Will -- 1.The Aim and Structure of 1.5 -- 2.Disinterested Action, Rational Action, and Kant -- 3.The Will -- 3.1.Voluntariness, Volition, Intention, and Responsibility -- 3.2.The Scope of the Will -- 4.Determinism and Libertarianism -- 4.1.Determinism -- 4.2.Libertarianism -- 5.The Significance of the Debate -- 3.Hedonism and the Ultimate Good -- 1.Goodness, Rightness, and the Ultimate Good -- 2.Pleasure -- 2.1.The Volitional View -- 2.2.The Feeling-Tone View -- 2.3.The Apprehension View -- 2.4.The Desirable Consciousness View -- 3.Hedonism -- 3.1.Psychological Hedonism -- 3.2.Against Synonymic Hedonism -- 3.3.Welfare Hedonism -- 3.4.Empirical Hedonism -- 3.5.Objective and Deductive Hedonisms -- 4.Objections to Empirical Hedonism -- 4.1.Practical Objections -- 4.2.Theoretical Objections -- 4.Intuitionism -- 1.Intuition and Intuitions -- 2.Intuitionisms -- 2.1.Perceptional Intuitionism -- 2.2.Dogmatic Intuitionism -- 2.3.Philosophical Intuitionism -- 3.Self-evidence -- 3.1.Conditions for Certainty -- 3.2.Sham-axioms -- 3.3.The Self-evident Axioms -- 5.Virtue -- 1.Intention and Motive -- 2.Virtue, Duty, and Supererogation -- 2.1.Objective and Subjective Rightness -- 2.2.The Relation between Virtue and Duty -- 2.3.Supererogation -- 3.The Nature of Virtue -- 3.1.Action and Emotion -- 3.2.Virtue and Motivation -- 3.3.The Cultivation and Value of Virtue -- 6.The Virtues -- 1.Wisdom and Self-control -- 2.Benevolence -- 2.1.Feeling, Object, and Scope -- 2.2.Special Relations -- 3.Justice -- 3.1.Justice, Law, and Distribution -- 3.2.Contract and Custom -- 3.3.Natural Rights and Freedom -- 3.4.Desert -- 4.Laws and Promises -- 4.1.Political Obligation -- 4.2.Promises -- 4.3.Utilitarianism and Justice -- 5.Veracity -- 6.Malevolence and Liberality -- 7.Self-regarding Virtues -- 8.Courage and Humility -- 9.The Failure of Common-sense Morality -- 7.Egoism, Utilitarianism, and the Dualism of Practical Reason -- 1.Egoism -- 1.1.A Dubious Guidance? -- 1.2.Happiness and Duty -- 2.Utilitarianism -- 2.1.Sidgwick's Form of Utilitarianism -- 2.2.The Arguments for Utilitarianism -- 2.3.Utilitarianism and Common-sense Morality -- 2.4.The Method of Utilitarianism -- 3.The Dualism of Practical Reason.
Summary
Roger Crisp presents a comprehensive study of Henry Sidgwick's 'The Methods of Ethics', a landmark work first published in 1874. Crisp argues that Sidgwick is largely right about central issues in moral philosophy: the metaphysics and epistemology of ethics, consequentialism, hedonism about well-being, and the weight to be given to self-interest.
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ISBN
9780191785047 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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