The Routledge companion to ethics /
This is a survey of the whole field of ethics by an international team of contributors. Over 60 chapters are divided into six clear sections: the history of ethics, meta-ethics, perspectives from outside ethics, ethical perspectives, morality, debates in ethics.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: History
- Ethical thought in China / Yang Xiao
- Ethical thought in India / Stephen R.L. Clark
- Socrates and Plato / Richard Kraut
- Aristotle / Christopher Taylor
- Later ancient ethics / A.A. Long
- The Arabic tradition / Peter Adamson
- Early modern natural law / Knud Haakonssen
- Hobbes / Bernard Gert
- Ethics and reason / Mike LeBuffe
- Ethics and sentiment: Shaftesbury and Hutcheson / Michael B. Gill
- Hume / James A. Harris
- Adam Smith / Craig Smith
- Utilitarianism to Bentham / Frederick Rosen
- Kant / Thomas E. Hill Jr.
- Hegel / Kenneth R. Westphal
- John Stuart Mill / Henry West
- Sidgwick, Green, and Bradley / T.H. Irwin
- Nietzsche / Maudemarie Clark
- Pragmatist moral philosophy / Alan J. Ryan
- Existentialism / Jonathan Webber
- Heidegger /Stephen Mulhall
- Part II: Meta-ethics
- Ethics, science, and religion / Simon Blackburn
- Freedom and responsibility / Randolph Clarke
- Reasons for action / Robert Audi
- The open question argument / Thomas Baldwin
- Realism and its alternatives / Peter Railton
- Non-cognitivism / Alexander Miller
- Error theory and fictionalism / Nadeem J.Z. Hussain
- Cognitivism without realism / Andrew Fisher
- Relativism / Nicholas L. Sturgeon
- Part III: Ideas and methods from outside ethics
- Social anthropology / James Laidlaw
- Ethics and psychology / Jesse Prinz
- Biology / Michael Ruse
- Formal methods in ethics / Erik Carlson
- Ethics and law / John Gardner
- Part IV: Perspectives in ethics
- Reasons, values, and morality / Simon Robertson
- Consequentialism / Brad Hooker
- Contemporary Kantian ethics / Andrews Reath
- Ethical intuitionism / Philip Stratton-Lake
- Virtue ethics / Michael Slote
- Contractualism / Rahul Kumar
- Contemporary natural law theory / Anthony J. Lisska
- Feminist ethics / Samantha Brennan
- Ethics and aesthetics / Robert Stecker
- Part V: Morality
- Morality and its critics / Stephen Darwall
- Conscience / John Skorupski
- Respect and recognition / Allen W. Wood
- Blame, remorse, mercy, forgiveness / Christopher Bennett
- Evil / Geoffrey Scarre
- Responsibility: intention and consequence / Suzanne Uniacke
- Responsibility: act and omission / Michael J. Zimmerman
- Partiality and impartiality / John Cottingham
- Moral particularism / Michael Ridge and Sean McKeever
- Part VI: Debates in ethics
- (i) Goals and ideals
- Welfare / Christopher Heathwood
- Ideals of perfection / Vinit Haksar
- (ii) Justice
- Rights / Tom Campbell
- Justice and punishment / John Tasioulas
- Justice and distribution / Matthew Clayton
- (iii) Human life
- Life, death, and ethics / Fred Feldman
- Ending life / R.G. Frey
- (iv) Our world
- Population ethics / Tim Mulgan
- Animals / Alan Carter
- The environment / Andrew Brennan and Norva Y.S. Lo
- (v) Current issues
- The ethics of free speech / Mary Kate McGowan
- The ethics of research / Julian Savulescu and Tony Hope
- World poverty / Thomas Pogge
- War / Henry Shue
- Torture and terrorism / David Rodin.