Ethics Done Right: Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory

Ethics Done Right:Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory

by: Elijah Millgram (Author)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press; First Edition (14 July 2005)

Language: English

Print length: 356 pages

ISBN-10: 0521839432

ISBN-13: 9780521839433

Book Description

Ethics Done Right examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory. Elijah Millgram shows that the key to thinking about ethics is to understand generally how to make decisions. The papers in this volume support a methodological approach and trace the connections between two kinds of theory in utilitarianism, in Kantian ethics, in virtue ethics, in Hume's moral philosophy, and in moral particularism. Unlike other studies of ethics, Ethics Done Right does not advocate a particular moral theory. Rather, it offers a tool that enables one to decide for oneself.