Value Judgement : Improving Our Ethical Beliefs.
James Griffin questions how we can improve our ethical judgements and beliefs and suggests how philosophy can answer it. In doing so, he discusses such questions as what a good life is like and how values relate to the world.
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1996.
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Table of Contents:
- ""PREFACE""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""I. IMPROVING OUR ETHICAL BELIEFS""; ""1. Piecemeal appeal to intuition""; ""2. Purist views""; ""3. Have we been too hard on intuitions?""; ""4. The Coherence Theory""; ""5. A coherence theory for ethics""; ""6. What we need""; ""II. THE GOOD LIFE""; ""1. The heterogeneity of values""; ""2. Two models of value judgements""; ""3. Which model?""; ""4. A general profile of prudential values""; ""5. Individual differences""; ""6. Dubious dualisms""; ""III. THE BOUNDARIES OF THE NATURAL WORLD""; ""1. Conceptual naturalism""
- ""2. Substantive naturalism""""3. The supervenience relation""; ""4. Are values supervenient?""; ""5. Explanation by ascent""; ""IV. VALUE AND NATURE""; ""1. The search for reliability""; ""2. Can prudential judgements be 'correct'?""; ""3. Are prudential values real?""; ""4. Expanding the list of especially reliable beliefs""; ""V. A SIMPLE MORAL THOUGHT""; ""1. A glance back""; ""2. The line between prudence and morality""; ""3. Egoism and altruism""; ""4. An example of a moral standard""; ""5. Deliberation about such a standard""; ""6. Special reliability again""; ""7. A look ahead""
- ""VI. AGENTS""""1. The good life""; ""2. The limits of the will""; ""3. The demands of social life""; ""4. The limits of knowledge""; ""5. Beyond common sense: philosophy and the search for system""; ""VII. SOME COMPLEX MORAL IDEAS""; ""1. Where do moral norms come from?""; ""2. Human limitations and the problem of scope""; ""3. An objection""; ""4. Other cases""; ""5. The possibility of system: (a) utilitarianism""; ""6. (b) Deontology""; ""7. (c) Virtue ethics""; ""8. My proposal""; ""9. Ethical conservatism""; ""10. The metaethical standing of these norms""
- ""VIII. HOW CAN WE IMPROVE OUR ETHICAL BELIEFS?""""1. The role of beliefs of high reliability""; ""2. Stages in criticizing ethics""; ""3. The idea of 'justifying' ethics""; ""4. The stuff of reflection""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""