The Methods of Ethics (Metody etyki)

Wprowadzenie

Sidgwick published the Methods in 1874, five years after resigning his fellowship over the religious tests, and revised it until his death; the seventh edition appeared in 1907. Instead of advocating one theory, he examines the “methods” by which people decide what they ought to do and tests each for clarity and consistency. After a general first book come books on egoism, on intuitionism, with a long analysis of common-sense morality, and on utilitarianism. Sidgwick finds the axioms of prudence and of impartiality both self-evident, so that practical reason seems divided against itself. C. D. Broad called it the best treatise on moral theory ever written, and Rawls wrote the foreword to a 1981 reprint.

Powiązania

Nawiązuje do

• Uzasadnienie metafizyki moralności1785 · Immanuel Kant
• Utylitaryzm1863 · John Stuart Mill

Podjęte w

• Principia Ethica1903 · George Edward Moore
• Reasons and Persons (Racje i osoby)1984 · Derek Parfit
• On What Matters (O tym, co się liczy)2011 · Derek Parfit

Krytykowane w

• Modern Moral Philosophy (Współczesna filozofia moralna)1958 · Elizabeth Anscombe
• Teoria sprawiedliwości1971 · John Rawls