Moral Principles and Social Values

Jennifer Trusted

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781000075021
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Originally published in 1987, this book discusses how matters of fact influence moral judgments and also how the judgments themselves influence facts. It demonstrates that ethics is a practical subject affecting our moral assessment of inter-personal behaviour and the conduct of public affairs. It is designed as in introduction to moral philosophy for first-year undergraduates and provides an excellent basis for further study as well as serving as a valuable background text for those whose primary interests are in law, politics, sociology, social history and education.

INDEX

abortion, 30, 116, 117–19, 122

Acton, Lord, 159, 185

advertisements, 29–30

altruism, altruist, 42–3, 69–70, 72, 95

American revolution, 150

American War of Independence, 138

anarchist, anarchy, 127, 137

animal(s) , 15, 31, 37, 58, 69, 87, 90, 95–102, 119, 122, 135, 136, 164

animal rights, 97, 136

apartheid, 125

Aquinas, St Thomas, 4, 14, 55

Aristotle, 3, 4, 55, 112, 158, 169, 173, 181

atheist, 22, 73

Austin, J. , 126–7

Austin, J.L., 66, 178

autocrat, 141

autonomous will (Kant), 57–9, 60, 66

autonomy, 41–3, 49, 117, 118

Ayer, A. J., 15, 26–9, 30, 56, 103, 107, 108, 166, 174, 176, 180

beauty, 62, 72–3

benevolence, 48, 51, 65, chapter VIII, 104, 105, 115, 133, 142, 154, 167

Bentham, J., 35, 38, 46, 61, 126–7, 147, 151, 172

Berlin, I., 45, 177

Bible, 56

black, 22

Blake, W., 73

Brave New World, 40

bull-baiting, bull-fighting, 95, 97, 122

cannabis, 135

Cantor, G., 123

Carlyle, T., 39, 168

Carroll, L., 180–1

categorical imperative (Kant), 57, 59

charity, 9...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• I Morality does matter
• II Judgments
• III Fact and value
• IV Emotivism and prescriptivism
• V Consequentialism: happiness and justice
• VI Intuitionism
• VII Conventions of trust and institutional facts
• VIII Benevolence: man and beast
• IX Moral conflict and rational choice
• X Secondary principles and social values
• XI Morality and the law
• XII Morality and rights
• XIII The morality of politics and politicians
• XIV Practical reason: sense and sensibility
• Glossary
• Notes and references
• Further reading
• Bibliography
• Index