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Skepticism in Ethics
Published by: Indiana University Press
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- 9780253114211
- Published: February 1989
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" . . . one of the very best books in ethics to be written since the end of World War II and a major contribution to the field." —Ramon M. Lemos
"Skepticism in Ethics is a model of comprehensiveness in the treatment of its topic. Butchvarov brings to bear many important results from his previous studies of universals, of knowledge, and of being. One hopes the book will become standard reading on the topic in the future." —The Review of Metaphysics
Do we, or at least can we, know what is good and what is right? Rebutting philosophical skepticism in ethics, Butchvarov vigorously defends the view that there are irreducibly ethical objective facts and that we can indeed know them.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1.INTRODUCTION
2. A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME FOR ETHICS
1. The Method
2. Concrete Goods and Abstract Goods
3. Right Action
4. Virtue and Duty
5. The Three Senses of Good and the Three Parts of Ethics
6. Remarks and Explanations
7. Definitions of Good
3. OUR AWARENESS OF GOOD
1. Emotivism and Prescriptivism
2. Moral Motivation
3. Is and Ought
4. Why Should I Do What I Ought to Do?
5. Phenomenological Skepticism
6. The General Phenomenology Required to Rebut the Skeptic
4. THE NATURE OF GOOD
1. The Metaphysics Required to Rebut the Skeptic
2. Universals and Intellectual Intuition
3. The Account of Identity Required to Rebut the Skeptic
4. The Kernel of Irrealism in Our Account of Goodness
5. Summary
5. THE SYSTEM OF GOODS
1. The Principle of Division for the Genus Goodness
2. Existence and Health
3. Pleasure and Satisfaction
4. Knowledge
5. Fortitude and Friendship
6. The Good of a Society
7. The Limitations of Our System
8. Is Good a Genus or a Transcendental?
9. Aristoteliam-Thomistic Reflections
6. THE QUANTITIES AND DEGREES OF GOOD AND EVIL
1. My Own Good and the Good of Others
2. The Argument fo Egoism
3. The Degrees of Goodness
7. OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD
1. Intuition and Self-Evidence
2. The Cartesian Alternative
3. Our Knowledge of Abstract Goods
8. OUR KNOWLEDGE OF RIGHT
1. Philosophical Skepticism Regarding Right and Wrong
2. The Account of Evidence Required to Rebut the Philosophical Skeptic
3. The Philosophical Skeptic Returns
4. Empirical Skepticism Regarding Right and Wrong
5. Redefining Right Action
6. Conclusion
NOTES
INDEX