The good in the right a theory of intuition and intrinsic value /

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Main Author: Audi, Robert, 1941-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Early twentieth-century intuitionism
  • Henry Sidgwick: three kinds of ethical intuitionism
  • G.E. Moore as a philosophical intuitionist
  • H.A. Prichard and the reassertion of dogmatic intuitionism
  • C.D. Broad and the concept of fittingness
  • W.D. Ross and the theory of prima facie duty
  • Intuitions, intuitionism, and reflection
  • 2. Rossian intuitionism as a contemporary ethical theory
  • The Rossian appeal to self-evidence
  • Two types of self-evidence
  • Resources and varieties of moderate intuitionism
  • Disagreement, incommensurability, and the charge of dogmatism
  • Intuitive moral judgment and rational action
  • 3. Kantian intuitionism
  • The possibility of systematizing Rossian principles
  • A Kantian integration of intuitionist principles
  • Kantian intuitionism as a development of Kantian ethics
  • Between the middle axioms and moral decision: the multiple grounds of obligation
  • 4. Rightness and goodness
  • Intrinsic value and the grounding of reasons for action
  • Intrinsic value and prima facie duty
  • The autonomy of ethics
  • Deontological constraints and agent-relative reasons
  • The unity problem for intuitionist ethics
  • 5. Intuitionism in normative ethics
  • Five methods in normative ethical reflection
  • The need for middle theorems
  • Some dimensions of beneficence
  • Toward a comprehensive intuitionist ethics.