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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Status of Morality | |
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| Introduction | |
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| ""Of the Influencing Motives of the Will"" & ""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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| The Subject Matter of Ethics | |
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| Trying Out One's New Sword | |
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| Ethics as Philosophy | |
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| A Defense of Ethical Nonnaturalism | |
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| Realism: Michael Smith | |
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| Moral Knowledge | |
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| Introduction | |
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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 | |
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| The Immoralist's Challenge | |
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| Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives | |
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| The Reconciliation Project | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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| Hedonism | |
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| The Experience Machine | |
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| The Good Life | |
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| A Defense of Attitudinal Hedonism | |
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| The Informed Desire Account | |
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| Desire and the Human Good | |
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| What Things are Good? | |
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| What Makes Someone's Life Go Best | |
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| Moral Responsibility | |
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| Introduction | |
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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: Thomas Nagel | |
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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 | |
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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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| Why Abortion is Immoral | |
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| Consequentialism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| The Consequentialist Perspective | |
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| Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism | |
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| Rule Consequentialism | |
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| What is Wrong with Slavery | |
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| Famine, Affluence and Morality | |
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| The Survival Lottery: John Harris | |
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| Deontology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
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| Kant's Principle 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 Double Effect | |
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| Killing, Letting Die, and The Trolley Problem | |
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| Contractarianism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Leviathan | |
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| Why Contractarianism?: David Gauthier | |
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| A Theory of Justice: John Rawls | |
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| Contractualism and Utilitarianism | |
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| Virtue Ethic | |