Basic moral philosophy / Robert L. Holmes.

Table of Contents

PART ONE THE CONCERNS OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY

CHAPTER ONE
The nature of ethics
1.1 Why study moral philosophy
1.2 The origins of morality
1.3 The activity of evaluating
1.4 Guiding and directing conduct
1.5 Value judgments and perspective judgments
Etc.

CHAPTER Two
Theories of moral right and wrong
2.1 Moral legalism and moral particularism
2.2 Rights-based theories
2.3 The relationship between goodness and rightness
2.4 Axiological and Deontological theories
2.5 Strong and weak deontologism
Etc.

PART TWO THE ETHICS OF VIRTUE
CHAPTER THREE
Virtue in ancient philosophy
3.1 Kinds of virtue
3.2 Plato and the virtuous person
3.3 The Soul's function
3.4 Virtue goodness, and right conduct
3.5 Some parallels in Hindu ethics
Etc.

CHAPTER FOUR
Virtue and happiness
4.1 Plato and Aristotle and the necessity of virtue for happiness
4.2 Perfectionism and highest good
4.3 Augustine and the performance of the highest good
4.4 Does everyone desire happiness? Nietzche on master morality and slave morality
Etc.

PART THREE
THE ETHICS OF CONDUCT
CHAPTER FIVE
Ethical and psychological egoism
5.1 Should we seek only our own good
5.2 Three objections of ethical egoism
5.3 The paradoxical nature of ethical egoism
5.4 psychological egoism in human motivation
Etc.

CHAPTER SIX
The divine command theory
6.1 The case of Abraham and Isaac
6.2 Greek and christian views of human nature
6.3 God's commands according to Judaism, Christianity and Islam
6.4 The relationship between God's will and moral rightness
6.5 A problem for the divine command theory
Etc.

CHAPTER SEVEN
Natural law ethics
7.1 Morality and nature
7.2 What does natural law ethics mean by '' nature''
7.3 Stoic natural law ethics
7.4 The stoic conception of duty
7.5 Christian natural law ethics
Etc.

CHAPTER EIGHT
Katiansim III
8.1 Morality is not be founded on happiness
8.2 The good will
8.3 The concept of duty
8.4 Objectives principles and hypothetical imperatives
8.5 Subjective principles or maxims
Etc.

CHAPTER NINE
Consequentialism
9.1 The attraction of consequentialism
9.2 Deontological consequentialism
9.3 Utilitarianism
9.4 Intrinsic and extrinsic value
9.5 Problems for utilitarianism
Etc.

CHAPTER TEN
Justice
10.1 The ideal of justice
10.2 Distributive justice
10.3 Justice, consistency and rationality
10.4 Three conceptions of distributive justice
10.5 Distributive justice as pure procedural justice
Etc.

CHAPTER ELEVEN
Ethical relativism
11.1 Cultural diversity
11.2 What is ethical relativism
11.3 Universalism and absolutism
11.4 What difference does it make whether relativism is true?
11.5 Relativism and moral disagreements
Etc.

CHAPTER TWELVE
Can moral principles be justified
12.1 Diversity at the level pf principles
12.2 Philosophical Intuitionism
12.3 Ethical naturalism
12.5 Rawls and the original position
Etc.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
PERSONAL DECISION IN SITUATION ETHICS, EXISTENTIALISM, AND THE ETHICAL OF CARING
13.1 The rejection of traditional ethics
13.2 Situation ethics
13.3 The principle of love
13.4 Existentialist ethics
13.5 Freedom, the supreme end
Etc.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CONTEXTUALISM: AN ETHICS OF PRAGMATISM
14.1 Adeweyan approach to ethics
14.2 Subjective, actionable, and actual rightness
14.3 The contextualist alternative
14.4 Elements of the moral situation
14.5 Nurturing goods
Etc.

Includes index. p. 226-234