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The Moral Philosophy of W. D. Ross

Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Virtue, and Value

Robert Audi, David Phillips (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-891480-8 (ISBN)
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W. D. Ross is an astute and often informative interpreter of Kant and Mill, of his own immediate predecessors in British moral philosophy, and of major positions of ethical theory. This book explores these topics and extends to Ross's aesthetics, his intuitionist epistemology, his metaphysics, and his value for applied ethics.
This volume not only explores Ross's moral philosophy and ethical theories, but also his aesthetics, intuitionist epistemology, metaphysics, and applied ethics. W. D. Ross is a major figure in the history of moral philosophy and his work has been increasingly discussed since the 1990s. He provided the first sustained articulation and defence of a new moral theory: a moderate deontology embodying a pluralistic theory of the right built around his most famous innovation, the concept of prima facie duty. His theory of the good is also pluralistic and, particularly in incorporating moral goodness, can be fruitfully contrasted both with Sidgwick's hedonism and Moore's value pluralism. Ross is an exemplar of clear moral reflection, a defender of the irreducible plurality of common-sense moral standards, a powerful opponent of absolute certainty in moral matters, and an insightful critic of utilitarianism. As a great Aristotelian scholar with a mastery of Aristotle's virtue ethics, he is able to clarify how practical wisdom informs moral deliberation and to portray, in illuminating detail, both virtue and virtuous action as paradigms of intrinsic value.

Robert Audi writes, lectures, and teaches in ethics and political philosophy, epistemology, and action theory. He has published books and papers in these and other areas. His OUP books include The Architecture of Reason (2001), Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State (2011), Rationality and Religious Commitment (2011), Means, Ends, and Persons (2015), and Rational Belief (2015). He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association, Editor-in-Chief of The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (1995, 1999, and 2015), and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. David Phillips is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Houston. He specializes in ethics; his research interests are primarily in the history of ethics, with a particular focus on British moral philosophers. He is the author of three books, all published by OUP: Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics: A Guide (2022), Rossian Ethics: W.D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory (2019), and Sidgwickian Ethics (2011).

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.1.2025
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-19-891480-6 / 0198914806
ISBN-13 978-0-19-891480-8 / 9780198914808
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