商品簡介
This collection of 20 essays culls some of the most important essays to come out of the Journal of Moral Philosophy in recent years. They focus, in five corresponding sections, on: practical reason, particularism, moral realism, virtue ethics, and general moral philosophy and ethics. Essay topics include: choosing the right theory of practical reason, whether rationality consists in responding correctly to reasons, a debate between Roger Crisp and Jonathan Dancy over particularism, causal explanatory power of moral facts, Confucian virtue ethics, deprivation of resources as a new category of non-consequentialist moral distinction, time-relative interests and abortion, gender essentialism and feminist genealogy, the morality of helping the poor. The essays are all written for academic audiences, but some are suitable for more general speculations about morality and ethics. The contributors are all professors or otherwise academic philosophers from the United States or Britain. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Thom Brooks is Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy at Newcastle University. He is founder and editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy.
