Moral Dilemmas
and other topics in moral philosophy
Philippa Foot
Price: £21.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925284-8
Publication date: 17 October 2002
232 pages, 216x138 mm
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| Description | | - Foot's strongest essays from two decades of work (late 1970s to the 1990s)
- Bridges the gap between 1978's Virtues and Vices
and 2001's Natural Goodness
- Completes the set of Foot's collected works
| | Moral Dilemmas
is the second volume of collected essays by the eminent moral philosopher Philippa Foot. It fills the gap between her famous 1978 collection Virtues and Vices
(now reissued) and her acclaimed monograph Natural Goodness
, published in 2001. Moral Dilemmas
presents the best of Professor Foot's work from the late 1970s to the 1990s. In these essays she develops
further her influential critique of the 'non-cognitivist' approaches that have dominated moral philosophy over the last fifty years. She shows why it is a mistake to think of morality in terms of special psychological states, expressed in special kinds of judgement and a special 'moral' kind of language. Instead she portrays thoughts about the goodness of human will and action as a particular
case of the evaluation of other operations of human beings, and indeed of all living things. Among other topics, she discusses the nature of moral judgement, practical rationality, and the conflict of virtue with desire and self-interest. Moral Dilemmas
, alongside Professor Foot's other two books, completes the summation of her distinctive and lasting contribution to twentieth-century moral
philosophy.
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Readership: Scholars and students of moral philosophy, and general readers interested in moral questions
| Contents |
Introduction
1.
Morality and Art
2.
Moral Relativism
3.
Moral Realism and Moral Dilemma
4.
Utilitarianism and the Virtues
5.
Killing and Letting Die
6.
Morality, Action, and Outcome
7.
Von Wright on Virtue
8.
Locke, Hume, and Modern Moral Theory
9.
Nietzsche's Immoralism
10.
Rationality and Virtue
11.
Moral Dilemmas Revisited
12.
Does Moral Subjectivism Rest on a Mistake?
Select Bibliography of Works by Philippa Foot
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Philippa Foot, Griffin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an Honorary Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford
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