1st Edition

Normative Ethics

By Shelly Kagan Copyright 1998
351 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

Providing a thorough introduction to current philosophical views on morality, Normative Ethics examines an act's rightness or wrongness in light of such factors as consequences, harm, and consent. Shelly Kagan offers a division between moral factors and theoretical foundations that reflects the actual working practices of contemporary moral philosophers.The first half of the book presents a... Read more
Preliminaries -- Factors -- The Good -- Doing Harm -- Other Constraints -- Further Factors -- Foundations -- Teleological Foundations -- Deontological Foundations -- Suggested Readings

Biography

Shelly Kagan