Ethics

Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality

David Wiggins

    • Preface

      I. Morality: Its Motive and Content

    • Overview
    1. Glaucon's and Adeimantus' interrogation of Socrates
    2. Hume's genealogy of morals
    3. Hume's theory extended
    4. From Hume to Kant
    5. The laws of morality as the laws of freedom and the laws of freedom as the laws of morality
    6. Classical utilitarianism
    7. A fresh argument for utilitarianism
    8. The consequentialist argument
    9. A first-order ethic of solidarity and reciprocity

      10. II. Justice


      Introductory note
    10. Neo-Aristotelian reflections on justice

      11. III. Metaethics


      Introductory note
    11. Objectivity in ethics
    12. Miscellanea metaethica
      Concluding overview A note on five texts Index
  • Cover: Ethics

David Wiggins retired in 2000 from the Wykeham Chair of Logic at the University of Oxford after 40 years teaching philosophy in the universities of Oxford and London.