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Moral Dilemmas: and Other Topics in Moral Philosophy

By Philippa Foot

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0199252831, 019925284X, 9780199252831, 9780199252848, 9780191597411
DOI
10.1093/019925284X.001.0001
LCC
BJ1031 .F64 2002
Open Library ID
OL3702034M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1378729 bytes)
Edition
Oxford Scholarship Online
Pages
218\134
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2025-01-29 15:46:53
ethics; Philippa Foot; moral dilemmas; moral judge

Description

Moral Dilemmas is the second volume of collected essays by the eminent moral philosopher Philippa Foot. It fills the gap between her 1978 collection Virtues and Vices and her acclaimed monograph Natural Goodness, published in 2001. Moral Dilemmas contains the best of Prof. 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 evaluations in general (or moral judgements in particular) as distinguished from ‘statements of fact’ by a special connection with the feelings, attitudes, or commitments of an individual speaker. Instead, she portrays thoughts about the goodness or badness of human action as like (though also unlike) the evaluation of other operations of human beings, and those of all living things. She also discusses moral relativism, utilitarianism, and moral dilemmas, as well as some subjects of special relevance to medical ethics. This work contains a select bibliography of the publications of Philippa Foot. With Prof. Foot's other two books, these essays present her distinctive and lasting contributions to twentieth‐century moral philosophy.

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