Free US delivery on orders $35 or over

Rationality, Rules, and Ideals

Critical Essays on Bernard Gert's Moral Theory

Rationality, Rules, and Ideals cover

Rationality, Rules, and Ideals

Critical Essays on Bernard Gert's Moral Theory

Quantity
In stock
$69.30 RRP $77.00 Website price saving $7.70 (10%)

This product is usually dispatched within 3 days

Description

Bernard Gert's moral theory is among the clearest and most comprehensive on the contemporary scene. It touches on elements of the dominant ethical orientations--utilitarianism, Kantianism, contractionism, and virtue ethics-without fitting neatly into any of those categories. For that reason, Gert's moral theory appeals to many ethicists dissatisfied with each of the dominant formulations.
Rationality, Rules, and Ideals presents Gert's Morality, the reactions by a number of prominent scholars, and Gert's response. All told, it is a remarkably wide-ranging study of ethical theory. The work is broken down into six parts, making Rationality, Rules, and Ideals perfect for a broad-ranging course on ethical theory, following Gert's critiques of utilitariansim, Kantianism, and virtue ethics. Both students and professionals will find much material to work with in this volume. The papers contribute not only to the understanding of Gert's wide-ranging theory but to a number of important topics in ethic theory, the theory of rationality, and applied ethics.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Scope and Structure of the Essays: A Short Introduction
Chapter 2 Precis of Morality: Its Nature and Justification
Chapter 3 Part I: Justification and Method
Chapter 4 Justification in Bernard Gert's Moral Theory
Chapter 5 Gert's Moral Theory and Discourse Ethics
Chapter 6 On the Relevance of Ignorance to the Demands of Morality
Chapter 7 Part II: Rationality and Reasons
Chapter 8 Reasons and Rationality in the Moral Philosophy of Bernard Gert
Chapter 9 Gert on Reasons, Rationality, Harms, and Lists
Chapter 10 Bernard Gert's Complex Hybrid Conception of Rationality
Chapter 11 Part III: Consequences and Rules
Chapter 12 Gert on Aid to Others
Chapter 13 Gert Contra Consequentialism
Chapter 14 The Role of Rules
Chapter 15 Part IV: Ideals and Goods
Chapter 16 Moral Ideals
Chapter 17 Accentuate the Negative: Negative Values, Moral Theory, and Common Sense
Chapter 18 A Note on Harms and Evils in Gert's Moral Theory
Chapter 19 Is the Lessening of Evil the Only Goal of Morality? A Role for Eudaimonia in Gert's Moral System
Chapter 20 Part V: Virtue and Character
Chapter 21 Rules and Virtues
Chapter 22 Character, Immoraility, and Punishment
Chapter 23 Part VI: Reply
Chapter 24 Replies to my Critics

Product details

Published Dec 28 2002
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 334
ISBN 9780742513174
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Robert Audi

Related Titles

Environment: Staging