Rossian Ethics

well-argued, engaging, with novel exegetical and philosophical insights... a welcome addition to the growing literature on intuitionism."

Autorentext
David Phillips is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Houston. His research interests are in ethics and the history of ethics with a particular focus on British moral philosophers. He is the author of Sidgwickian Ethics (OUP 2011).

Klappentext

W.D. Ross (1877-1971) was the most important opponent of utilitarianism and consequentialism in British moral philosophy between 1861 and 1939. In Rossian Ethics, David Phillips offers the first monograph devoted exclusively to Ross's seminal contribution to moral philosophy. The book has two connected aims. The first is to interpret and evaluate Ross's moral theory. The second is to articulate a distinctive view intermediate between consequentialism andabsolutist deontology, which Phillips calls "classical deontology."

Inhalt

• Chapter One: Introduction

• Chapter Two: What are Prima Facie Duties?

• Chapter Three: What Prima Facie Duties are there? Ross, Agent-Relativity, and the Rejection of Consequentialism

• Chapter Four: What Things are Good?

• Chapter Five: The Metaethical and Epistemological Framework