The Ethic's Toolkit

Part I Part II Part III Part IV Acknowledgments Introduction Part I The Grounds of Ethics 1.2 Agency 3 1.3 Authority 6 1.4 Autonomy I0 1.5 Care 12 1.6 Character 1.7 Conscience 16 1.8 Evolution 19 1.9 Finitude 21 1.10 Flourishing 23 1.11 Harmony 26 1. 12 Interest 28 1.13 Intuition 31 1.14 Merit 33 1.15 Naturallaw 36 1.16 Need 1.17 fain and pleasure 41 1.18 Revelation 44 1.19 Rights 1.20 Sympathy 1.21 Tradition and history 53 Part II Frameworks for Ethics 2.2 Contractarianism 2.3 Culture critique 62 2.4 Deontological ethics 64 2.5 Discourse ethics 66 2.6 Divine command 68 2.7 Egoism 71 2.8 Hedonism 74 2.9 Naturalism 76 2.10 Particularism 79 2.11 Perfectionism 81 2.12 Pragmatism 84 2.13 Rationalism 86 2.14 Relativism 88 2.15 Subjectivism 91 2.16 Virtue ethics 94 Part III Central Concepts in Ethics 3.2 Act/rule 101 3.3 Bad/evil 3.4 Beneficence/non-maleficence 3.5 Cause/reason 109 3.6 Cognitivism/non-cognitivism 111 3.7 Commission/omission 114 3.8 Consent 116 3.9 Facts/values 119 3.10 The golden mean 122 3.11 Honor/shame 124