伦理学方法

简介

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.

联系

承接了

• 道德形而上学的奠基1785 · 伊曼努尔·康德
• 功利主义1863 · 约翰·斯图尔特·密尔

被承接于

• 伦理学原理1903 · G. E. 摩尔
• 理与人1984 · 德里克·帕菲特
• 论重要之事2011 · 德里克·帕菲特

被批评于

• 现代道德哲学1958 · G. E. M. 安斯康姆
• 正义论1971 · 约翰·罗尔斯