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Preface | |
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What Is Ethics? | |
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Crito | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Ethical Relativism Versus Ethical Objectivism | |
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Herodotus: Custom is King | |
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Objectivism: Natural Law | |
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A Defense of Ethical Relativism | |
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A Critique of Ethical Relativism | |
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Moral Relativism Defended | |
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The Objective Status of Human Rights | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Morality, Self-Interest and Future Selves | |
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Why Be Moral? | |
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On the Socratic Dilemma | |
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Morality and Advantage | |
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A Reconciliation Project | |
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Later Selves and Moral Principles | |
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Persons, Character, and Morality | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Value | |
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Classical Hedonism | |
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The Experience Machine | |
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Value and the Origin of Right and Wrong | |
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The Transvaluation of Values | |
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What Makes Someone's Life Go Best? | |
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Value: The View from Nowhere | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Utilitarianism and Consequentialism | |
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Utilitarianism | |
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Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism | |
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Against Moral Conservatism | |
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Against Utilitarianism | |
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Rule-Utilitarianism | |
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Side Constraints | |
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Famine, Affluence and Morality | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Kantian and Deontological Systems | |
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Foundation for the Metaphysic of Morals | |
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What Makes Right Acts Right? | |
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Kantian Formula of the End in Itself and World Hunger | |
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Moral Luck | |
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Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives | |
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Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Contractarian Ethical Systems | |
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The Leviathan | |
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Why Contractarianism? | |
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Contractualism: Justice as Fairness | |
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Contractualism and Utilitarianism | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Virtue-Based Ethical Systems | |
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The Ethics of Virtue | |
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Virtue and the Moral Life | |
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A Critique of Virtue-Based Ethics | |
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Are Virtues No More than Dispositions to Obey Moral Rules? | |
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The Nature of the Virtues | |
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Moral Saints | |
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In Defense of Moral Saints | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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The Fact/Value Problem: Metaethics In The Twentieth Century | |
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On Reason and the Emotions: The Fact/Value Distinction | |
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Non-Naturalism | |
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Emotivism | |
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Prescriptivism: The Structure of Ethics and Morals | |
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The Object of Morality | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Moral Realism And The Challenge Of Skepticism | |
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The Subjectivity of Values | |
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A Critique of Mackie's Error Theory | |
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Moral Nihilism | |
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Moral Explanations | |
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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy | |
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Two Forms of Ethical Skepticism | |
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A Defense of Moral Realism | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Religion and Ethics | |
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Morality and Religion | |
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God and Immortality as Necessary Postulates of Morality | |
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Religious and the Queerness of Morality | |
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Ethics Without God | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Contemporary Challenges To Classical Ethical Theory | |
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Sociobiology and the Question of Moral Responsibility | |
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Ethics and the Descent of Man | |
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Sociobiology and Ethics | |
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Evolution and Ethics: The Sociobiological Approach | |
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Prospects for an Evolutionary Ethics | |
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The Law of the Jungle, Evolution and Morality | |
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Suggestions for Further Readingon Sociobiology | |
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The Challenge of Determinism to Moral Responsibility and Desert | |