Moral dilemmas and other topics in moral philosophy
By: Philippa Foot.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Ethics.; Dilemma.; Decision making -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Description: "Moral Dilemmas presents the best of Professor Foot's work from the late 1970s to the 1990s. In these essays she develops further her influential critique of the 'non-cognitivist' approaches that have dominated moral philosophy over the last fifty years. She shows why it is a mistake to think of morality in terms of special psychological states, expressed in special kinds of judgement and a special 'moral' kind of language. Instead she portrays thoughts about the goodness of human will and action as a particular case of the evaluation of other operations of human beings, and indeed of all living things. Among other topics, she discusses moral relativism, utilitarianism, the nature of moral judgement, and practical rationality."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Select bibliography of works by Philippa Foot": p. [209]-212.