Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

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1. The Phenomenology of Moral Normativity

   By William Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   Why should I be moral? Philosophers have long been concerned with the legitimacy of morality’s claim on us—especially its ostensible aim to motivate certain actions of all persons unconditionally. This problem of moral normativity has received extensive treatment in analytic moral theory, but...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
2. The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics

   Virtues and Gifts

   By Andrew Pinsent

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   Thomas Aquinas devoted a substantial proportion of his greatest works to the virtues. Yet, despite the availability of these texts (and centuries of commentary), Aquinas’s virtue ethics remains mysterious, leaving readers with many unanswered questions. In this book, Pinsent argues that the key...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
3. Moral Exemplars in the Analects

   The Good Person is That

   By Amy Olberding

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   In this study, Olberding proposes a new theoretical model for reading the Analects. Her thesis is that the moral sensibility of the text derives from an effort to conceptually capture and articulate the features seen in exemplars, exemplars that are identified and admired pre-theoretically and thus...

   Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge
4. Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered

   Phenomenological Ethics

   By Pavlos Kontos

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in the world. The main thesis is that, before any reference to values or to criteria about good and...

   Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
5. Challenging Moral Particularism

   Edited by Matjaž Potrc, Vojko Strahovnik, Mark Lance

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   Particularism is a justly popular ‘cutting-edge’ topic in contemporary ethics across the world. Many moral philosophers do not, in fact, support particularism (instead defending "generalist" theories that rest on particular abstract moral principles), but nearly all would take it to be a position...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Ethics of Forgiveness

   A Collection of Essays

   Edited by Christel Fricke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   We are often pressed to forgive or in need of forgiveness: Wrongdoing is common. Even after a perpetrator has been taken to court and punished, forgiveness still has a role to play. How should a victim and a perpetrator relate to each other outside the courtroom, and how should others relate to...

   Published February 13th 2011 by Routledge
7. Rationality and Moral Theory

   How Intimacy Generates Reasons

   By Diane Jeske

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   This book provides answers to both normative and metaethical questions in a way that shows the interconnection of both types of questions, and also shows how a complete theory of reasons can be developed by moving back and forth between the two types of questions. It offers an account of the...

   Published November 3rd 2010 by Routledge
8. Moral Responsibility

   The Ways of Scepticism

   By Carlos Moya

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   We are strongly inclined to believe in moral responsibility - the idea that certain human agents truly deserve moral praise or blame for some of their actions. However, recent philosophical discussion has put this natural belief under suspicion, and there are important reasons for thinking that...

   Published March 31st 2010 by Routledge
9. Deprivation and Freedom

   A Philosophical Enquiry

   By Richard J. Hull

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   Deprivation and Freedom investigates the key issue of social deprivation. It looks at how serious that issue is, what we should do about it and how we might motivate people to respond to it. It covers core areas in moral and political philosophy in new and interesting ways, presents the topical...

   Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
10. The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle

    Mirrors of Virtue

    By Jiyuan Yu

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

    As a comparative study of the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Confucius, this book explores how they each reflect upon human good and virtue out of their respective cultural assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and philosophical perspectives. It does not simply take one side as a...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge