A Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy / / Brent Adkins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Adkins, Brent,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.) :; 9 B/W illustrations 4 B/W tables

A student's guide to ethics and moral philosophy in its historical contextDownload a free sample chapter (pdf)How should we live? How should we act? How might we live? These are the three questions of moral philosophy. Brent Adkins traces the history of ethics and morality by examining six thin...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Glossary
• Introduction: Three Questions
• PART I ETHICS HOW SHOULD WE LIVE? ARISTOTLE AND SPINOZA
• 1 Aristotle: Happiness is the Good (Nicomachean Ethics, Books 1 and 2)
• 2 Aristotle: Virtue and the Highest Happiness (Nicomachean Ethics, Books 2, 6 and 10)
• 3 Spinoza: The Universe and Power (Ethics, Parts 1, 2, and 3)
• 4 Spinoza: Emotions and Freedom (Ethics, Parts 4 and 5)
• PART II MORALITY HOW SHOULD WE ACT? KANT AND MILL
• 5 Kant: Happiness is not the Good (Groundwork, Part 1)
• 6 Kant: The Categorical Imperative (Groundwork, Part 2)
• 7 Mill: Happiness is Pleasure (Utilitarianism, Chapters 1 and 2)
• 8 Mill: The Greatest Happiness for the Greatest Number (Utilitarianism, Chapters 3, 4, and 5)
• PART III BEYOND HOW MIGHT WE LIVE? NIETZSCHE AND LEVINAS
• 9 Nietzsche: These are the Wrong Questions (Genealogy of Morals, First Essay)
• 10 Nietzsche: Morality and Power (Genealogy of Morals, Second Essay)
• 11 Levinas: Philosophy and Appropriation ("Ethics as First Philosophy")
• 12 Levinas: Ethics and the Other ("Ethics as First Philosophy")
• Conclusion: Beyond Beyond
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• Bibliography
• Index