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| Preface | |
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| Source Acknowledgments | |
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| The Status of Morality | |
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| Introduction to Part I | |
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| “Of the Influencing Motives of the Will” and “Moral Distinctions Not Derived from Reason” | |
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| A Critique of Ethics | |
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| The Subjectivity of Values | |
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| Ethics and Observation | |
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| Moral Relativism Defended | |
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| Cultural Relativism | |
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| The Subject-Matter of Ethics | |
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| Ethics as Philosophy: A Defense of Ethical Nonnaturalism | |
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| Realism | |
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| Moral Knowledge | |
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| Introduction to Part II | |
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| Thinking About Cases | |
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| But I Could be Wrong | |
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| Proof | |
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| Moral Knowledge and Ethical Pluralism | |
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| Coherentism and the Justification of Moral Beliefs | |
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| Why Be Moral? | |
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| Introduction to Part III | |
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| The Immoralist’s Challenge Plato | |
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| Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives | |
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| A Puzzle About the Rational Authority of Morality | |
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| Moral Rationalism | |
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| Psychological Egoism | |
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| Flourishing Egoism | |
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| Ethical Egoism | |
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| Moral Saints | |
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| Ethics and Religion | |
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| Introduction to Part IV | |
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| Euthyphro Plato | |
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| A New Divine Command Theory | |
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| God and Objective Morality: A Debate | |
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| God and Immortality as Postulates of Pure Practical Reason | |
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| God and the Moral Order | |
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| God and Morality | |
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| Value | |
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| Introduction to Part V | |
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| Hedonism | |
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| The Experience Machine | |
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| The Good Life: A Defense of Attitudinal Hedonism | |
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| Rationality and Full Information | |
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| Desire and the Human Good | |
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| What Makes Someone’s Life Go Best | |
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| What Things are Good? | |
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| Moral Responsibility | |
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| Introduction to Part VI | |
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| Determinism and the Theory of Agency | |
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| The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility | |
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| Freedom and Necessity | |
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| Moral Luck | |
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| Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility | |
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| Freedom and Resentment | |
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| Moral Standing | |
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| Introduction to Part VII | |
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| We Have No Duties to Animals | |
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| All Animals are Equal | |
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| The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations | |
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| On Being Morally Considerable | |
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| Abortion and Infanticide | |
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| An Argument that Abortion is Wrong | |
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| Consequentialism | |
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| Introduction to Part VIII | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism | |
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| Rule-Consequentialism | |
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| Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality | |
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| What is Wrong with Slavery | |
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| Famine, Affluence and Morality | |
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| The Survival Lottery | |
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| Deontology | |
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| Introduction to Part IX | |
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| Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
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| Kant’s Formula of Universal Law | |
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| Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems | |
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| The Rationality of Side Constraints | |
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| The Golden Rule Rationalized | |
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| The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect | |
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| Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem | |
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| Contractarianism | |
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| Introduction to Part X | |
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| Leviathan | |
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| Why Contractarianism? | |
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| A Theory of Justice | |
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| Contractualism and Utilitarianism | |
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| Virtue Ethics | |
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| Introduction to Part XI | |
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| The Nature of Virtue | |
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| Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach | |
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| Normative Virtue Ethics | |
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| Agent-Based Virtue Ethics | |
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| A Virtue Ethical Account of Right Action | |
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| Being Virtuous and Doing the Right Thing | |
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| Feminist Ethics | |
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| Introduction to Part XII | |
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| In a Different Voice | |
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| An Ethic of Caring | |
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| Justice, Care, and Gender Bias | |
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| The Need for More than Justice | |
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| Sexism | |
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| Feminist Skepticism, Authority, and Transparency | |
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| Prima Facie Duties and Particularism | |
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| Introduction to Part XIII | |
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| What Makes Right Acts Right? | |
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| An Unconnected Heap of Duties? | |
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| An Unprincipled Morality | |
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| On Knowing the “Why”: Particularism and Moral Theory | |
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| Unprincipled Ethics | |
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