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Right and wrong : basic readings in ethics / [compiled by] Christina Hoff Sommers ; under the general editorship of Robert J. Fogelin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publication, c 1986Description: vi, 20l ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0155771108 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 271 S697R  19
LOC classification:
  • BJ1012 .R489 1986
Contents:
Good will, duty, and the categorical imperative / Immanuel Kant -- Kant's ethical theory: exposition and critique / Fred Feldman -- Respect for persons and fraternity / R. S. Peters -- What if everyone did that? / Colin Strang -- A critique of Kantianism / Richard Taylor -- The principle of utility / Jeremy Bentham -- Utilitarianism / J. J. C. Smart -- A critique of utilitarianism / Bernard Williams -- Rule-Utilitarianism / John Hospers -- A defense of utilitarianism / R. M. Hare -- Morality as custom / Herodotus -- A defense of ethical relativism / Ruth Benedict -- Ethical relativism: a critique / W. T. Stace -- Vulgar Relativism / Bernard Williams -- Trying out one's new sword / Mary Midgley -- Of the state of men without civil society / Thomas Hobbes -- The virtue of selfishness / Ayn Rand -- Egoism and moral skepticism / James Rachels -- Morality, egoism and the prisoner's dilemma / Peter Singer.
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 271 S697R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 065767

Bibliography: p. 201.

Good will, duty, and the categorical imperative / Immanuel Kant -- Kant's ethical theory: exposition and critique / Fred Feldman -- Respect for persons and fraternity / R. S. Peters -- What if everyone did that? / Colin Strang -- A critique of Kantianism / Richard Taylor -- The principle of utility / Jeremy Bentham -- Utilitarianism / J. J. C. Smart -- A critique of utilitarianism / Bernard Williams -- Rule-Utilitarianism / John Hospers -- A defense of utilitarianism / R. M. Hare -- Morality as custom / Herodotus -- A defense of ethical relativism / Ruth Benedict -- Ethical relativism: a critique / W. T. Stace -- Vulgar Relativism / Bernard Williams -- Trying out one's new sword / Mary Midgley -- Of the state of men without civil society / Thomas Hobbes -- The virtue of selfishness / Ayn Rand -- Egoism and moral skepticism / James Rachels -- Morality, egoism and the prisoner's dilemma / Peter Singer.

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