{"product_id":"reading-ethics-isbn-9781405124744","title":"Reading Ethics","description":"This text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThis text encourages students to engage with ethical issues through a series of classic and contemporary readings\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReadings are accompanied by interactive commentary from the editors\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInspires students to think about the nature of moral philosophy and to draw comparisons between different traditions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThemes include: the nature of goodness, subjectivity and objectivity\u003cu\u003e,\u003c\/u\u003e justice and virtue, moral motivation, moral obligation, and literature as moral philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReadings range from Plato’s \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e to Rawls’ \u003ci\u003eA Theory of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Introduction. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Goodness\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Aristotle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (extracts from Book I).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommentary on Aristotle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Mill.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJ. S. Mill, Utilitarianism (extracts from Ch. 2, ‘What Utilitarianism Is’).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommentary on Mill.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Foot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilippa Foot, ‘Utilitarianism and the Virtues’ (extracts).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommentary on Foot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Justice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Plato (and Socrates).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlato, Republic (extracts from Books II–IV).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommentary on Plato.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Rawls.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Rawls, A Theory of Justice (extracts from Ch.1, ‘Justice as Fairness’).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommentary on Rawls.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Reasons for Action\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Hume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (extracts from II.III.iii, ‘Of the Influencing Motives of the Will’, and III.I.i, ‘Moral Distinctions Not Derived from Reason’).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommentary on Hume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to McDowell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn McDowell, ‘Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical Imperatives?’ (extracts).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommentary on McDowell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Subjectivism and Objectivism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to the Problem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Mackie.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJ. L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (extracts from Ch.1, ‘The Subjectivity of Values’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommentary on Mackie.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Nagel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere (extracts from Ch. VIII, ‘Value’).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommentary on Nagel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Morality and Obligation\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to the Problem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Kant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImmanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (extracts from Section II, ‘Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to Metaphysics of Morals’).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommentary on Kant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBernard Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (extracts from Ch. 10, ‘Morality, the Peculiar Institution’).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommentary on Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Boundaries of Moral Philosophy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to the Problem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Nussbaum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Nussbaum, Love’s Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (extracts from essay 4, ‘Flawed Crystals: James’s The Golden Bowl and Literature as Moral Philosophy’).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommentary on Nussbaum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Gaita.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaimond Gaita, Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception (extracts from Ch. 4, ‘Remorse and Its Lessons’).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommentary on Gaita.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e \"Reading Ethics is a highly original and creative approach to introducing ethics which not only encourages beginners to understand and think about primary sources, but will also challenge, renew and enliven the interest of experienced philosophers and their interpretation of familiar arguments. There is simply nothing else available that introduces primary works in a way so likely to capture the interest and imagination.\" \u003ci\u003eMichael Lacewing, Heythrop College\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eMiranda Fricker\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck, London. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eEpistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), and co-editor of the \u003ci\u003eCambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (2007).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Guttenplan\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in Philosophy at Birkbeck, London. He is author of \u003ci\u003eMind’s Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell Publishing, 2000), and \u003ci\u003eThe Languages of Logic\u003c\/i\u003e (Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 1997), editor of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Philosophy of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell Publishing, 1995) and executive editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eMind \u0026amp; Language\u003c\/i\u003e. His book \u003ci\u003eObjects of Metaphor\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e  This introductory text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings. It will inspire students to think about the distinctive nature of moral philosophy, and to draw comparisons between different traditions of thought, between ancient and modern philosophies, and between theoretical and literary writing about the place of value in human life. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach of the book’s six chapters focuses on a particular theme: the nature of goodness, subjectivity and objectivity in ethical thinking\u003cu\u003e,\u003c\/u\u003e justice and virtue, moral motivation, the place of moral obligation, and the idea that literature can be a form of moral philosophy. The historical readings come from Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant and Mill; and the contemporary readings from Foot, Rawls, McDowell, Mackie, Nagel, Williams, Nussbaum and Gaita.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe editors’ introductions to the themes, and the interactive commentaries they provide for each reading, are intended to make Reading Ethics come as close as possible to a seminar in philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989916827877,"sku":"NP9781405124744","price":38.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405124744.jpg?v=1761785898","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/reading-ethics-isbn-9781405124744","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}