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- Subject: Re: Ethics -- a quest
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- From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
- Date: 29 Jul 92 23:07:21 EDT
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- In <1992Jul27.054647.26559@StarConn.com> agray@StarConn.com writes:
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- > Can anyone provide pointers to a discussion of ethics that is NOT based
- > on Judeo-Christian mythology?
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- There are a number of quite good anthologies (which I'd recommend before diving
- into more lengthy works from previous centuries). VIRTUE AND VICE IN EVERYDAY
- LIFE by Christina Hoff Sommers is quite good. Another interesting (short,
- non-textbook, despite its title) one is MORALITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS by
- Bernard Williams (1972). For a fairly rigorous course of self-study (good to
- read with at least one other person so you can discuss them) try John Stuart
- Mill, UTILITARIANISM followed by Kant GROUNDWORK OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS
- followed by Rawls, A THEORY OF JUSTICE. Somewhere in there you could also read
- Aristotle, NICOMACHEAN ETHICS and Nietzsche, GENEALOGY (sic) OF MORALS. By the
- time you've read those, you can apply to grad school. A good new work is
- Sabina Lovabond's REALISM & IMAGINATION IN ETHICS, though it is too technical
- for a first encounter. Somewhere in there you'll want to read Hume, too, but
- Hume probably talks about God too much for your current taste. Oh yeah, A.
- MacIntyre, AFTER VIRTUE isn't bad either.
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- Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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