Three Methods of Ethics A Debate

During the past decade ethical theory has been in a lively state of development, and three basic approaches to ethics - Kantian ethics, consequentialism, and virtue ethics - have assumed positions of particular prominence. Written in the form of a debate, this volume presents a clear survey and assessment of the main arguments, both for and against each of these three central approaches to ethics. In doing so, it represents the first volume to bring these forms of ethical theory into a critical relationship, engaging current philosophical debate on the one hand in terms clear enough for undergraduates on the other.It is an ideal basis for course use in ethics and moral philosophy.

Marcia W. Baron is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Urbana. She is the author of Kantian Ethics Almost Without Apology (1995).

Philip Pettit is Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University. He is the author of Republicanism (1996), The Common Mind (1993), and Not Just Deserts (1990), and is editor (with Robert E. Goodin) of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy (Blackwell Publishers, paperback edition 1996) and Contemporary Political Philosophy: an Anthology (Blackwell Publishers, paperback edition 1997).

Michael Slote is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Goods and Virtues (1983), Common Sense Morality and Consequentialism (1985), Beyond Optimizing(1989), and From Morality to Virtue (1992).

Introduction
Kantian Ethics
Introduction
Consequentalism versus Kantian Ethics
Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics
Further Objections to Kantian Ethics
The Consequentialist Perspective
A Moral Psychology for Consequentialists and Non-consequentialists
The Question of Rightness
Different Answers to the Question of Rightness
In Favour of the Consequentialist Answer to the Question of Rightness
The Tenability of the Consequentialist Answer
Virtue Ethics
What is Virtue Ethics?
Theory versus Anti-theory
Virtue Ethics versus Kantian and Common-sense Morality
Common-sense Virtue Ethics versus Consequentialism
Further Aspects of Common-sense virtual Ethics
Making Sense of Agent-based Virtue Ethics
Morality as Inner Strength
Morality as Universal Benevolence
Morality as Caring
Agent-basing and Applied Ethics
Conclusion: Comparisons within Virtue Ethics
Reply to Pettit and Slote
Reply to Pettit
Reply to Stote
Reply to Baron and Stote
Rival Theories?
Comment on Slote
Comment on Baron
Reply to Baron and Pettit
Reply to Baron
Reply to Pettit
Virtue Politics
Index
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