A rare academic study on what John Rawls, Peter Singer and Derek Parfit acknowledge as the finest book in ethics b 'The Methods of Ethics'. With a rather shocking conclusion that 'none of us can match Sidgwick', Mariko Nakano-Okuno lucidly analyzes Henry Sidgwick's impacts on contemporary ethics. MARIKO NAKANO-OKUNO is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University, USA, and an award-winning philosopher/author in Japan. Her work includes 'Sidgwick and Kant: On the So-called 'Discrepancies' between Utilitarian and Kantian Ethics,' in 'Henry Sidgwick: Happiness and Religion', edited by Bucolo, Crisp & Schultz (2007). INDICE: Introduction - PART I: SIDGWICK'S THEORY OF ETHICS - The Scope of Ethics - An Overview of 'The Methods of Ethics - 'Three Methods, Intuition, and Common Sense - Meta-Ethical Analyses - Testing the Significance of Apparent Truths - The Three Fundamental Principles - Philosophical Foundations of Utilitarianism - PART II: A RE-EXAMINATION OF CONTEMPORARY UTILITARIANISM - An Approach Not Appealing to Moral Intuition - A Reappraisal of Hedonism - Interpersonal Comparison and Maximization - Reconciling the Dualism of the Practical Reason - Concluding Chapter - Notes - Bibliography - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-32178-6
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 02/09/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés