Synopses & Reviews
In recent decades, the revival of natural law theory in modern moral philosophy has been an exciting and important development.
Human Values brings together an international group of moral philosophers who in various respects share the aims and ideals of natural law ethics. In their diverse ways, these authors make distinctive and original contributions to the continuing project of developing natural law ethics as a comprehensive treatment of modern ethical theory and practice.
Synopsis
The recent revival of natural law theory in modern moral philosophy has been an exciting and important development. This book brings together an international group of moral philosophers who make original contributions to the project of developing natural law ethics as a comprehensive treatment of modern ethical theory and practice.
About the Author
DAVID S. ODERBERG is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of many articles in metaphysics, ethics, philosophical logic and other subjects. Among other books, he is the author of
Moral Theory: A Non-Consequentialist Approach (2000) and
Applied Ethics: A Non-Consequentialist Approach (2000), as well as co-editor with Jacqueline A. Laing of
Human Lives: Critical Essays on Non-Consequentialist Bioethics (1997).
T.D.J CHAPPELL is currently Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, UK. He has also taught at the universities of Oxford, East Anglia, Manchester and British Columbia, and been a Visiting Scholar in Classics at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Understanding Human Goods (1998), The Plato Reader (1996) and Aristotle and Augustine on Freedom (Macmillan, 1995). He has also edited the collection, The Philosophy of the Environment (1997) and has two forthcoming books, Reading Plato's Theaetetus and Western Philosophy: The Inescapable Self.
Table of Contents
"Our natural guide...": Conscience, 'Nature', and Moral Experience--
J.Cottingham * Basic Goods, Practical Insight, and External Reasons--
C.Tollefsen * The Fact/Value Distinction--
C.Martin * Incommensurability and Basic Goods: A Tension in the New Natural Law Theory--
H.S.Richardson * The Polymorphy of Practical Reason;
T.Chappell * The Structure and Content of the Good;
D.S.Oderberg * Harming and Wronging: The Importance of Normative Context;
S.Uniacke * Law, Liberalism, and the Common Good--
J.Laing * 'Double Effect' or Practical Wisdom?--
G.J.Hughes * Beyond Double Effect: Side Effects and Bodily Harm--
H.Watt * Intention, Foresight, and Success;
M.C.Murphy