Methods of Ethics (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Henry Sidgwick Ma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333150350 ISBN 13 : 9781333150358

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Enhance your understanding of Sidgwick’s ethical project with a clarified, expanded companion edition.

This volume presents all the important additions and alterations from the second edition of The Methods of Ethics, explained and justified for readers of the first edition. It expands the practical scope, revises key arguments, and clarifies how ethics relates to politics, psychology, and the theory of evolution. Readers will encounter a more explicit treatment of happiness, well-being, and the role of moral sentiments in shaping conduct.

The book reworks several chapters to improve clarity, address critics, and give a fuller account of the plan and methods Sidgwick uses. It foregrounds the three main approaches to right conduct—intuitional, utilitarian, and egoistic methods—and explores how they interact in everyday moral reasoning.

• Updated discussions on Hedonism, common sense morality, and their practical implications


• Revisions to the treatment of the Utilitarian method and the relation between happiness and duty


• Expanded explanations of how ethics connects with politics and social norms


• New material that responds to criticisms and clarifies the book’s overall framework

Ideal for readers of the original work, students of moral philosophy, and anyone seeking a clearer, more accessible edition of Sidgwick’s influential project.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In offering to the public a new book upon a subject so trite as Ethics, it seems desirable to indicate clearly at the outset its plan and purpose. I ts distinctive characteristics may be first given negatively. It is not, in the main, metaphysical or psychological: at the same time it is not dogmatic or directly practical: it does not deal, except by way of illustration, with the history of ethical thoughL in a sense it might be said to be not even critical, since it is only quite incidentally that it offers any criticism of the systems of individual moralists. It claims to be an examination, at once expository and critical, of the different methods of obtaining reasoned convictions as to what ought to be done which are to be found either explicit or implicit in the moral consciousness of mankind generally: and which, from time to time, have been developed, either singly or in combination, by individual thinkers, and worked up into the systems now historical I have avoided the inquiry into theO rigin of theM oral Faculty which has perhaps occupied a disproportionate amount of the attention of modem moralists by the simple assumption (which seems to be made implicitly in all ethical reasoning) that there is something under any given circumstances which it is right or reasonable to do, and that this may be known. If it be admitted that we now have the faculty of knowing this, it appears to me that the investigation of the historical antecedents of this cognition, and of its relation to other I did not mean to exclude the supposition that two or more alternatives might under certain oiroumstanoes be equally right (1884).
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333150350
• ISBN 13: 9781333150358
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 138
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