Ethics Done Right: Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory

Elijah Millgram

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511610615

Ethics Done Right examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory. Elijah Millgram shows that the key to thinking about ethics is to understand generally how to make decisions. The papers in this volume support a methodological approach and trace the connections between two kinds of theory in utilitarianism, in Kantian ethics, in virtue ethics, in Hume's moral philosophy, and in moral particularism. Unlike other studies of ethics, Ethics Done Right does not advocate a particular moral theory. Rather, it offers a tool that enables one to decide for oneself.

'There is much to admire about Millgram's book. It is entertainingly written, has an unusual take on familiar issues and is always insightful and interesting. Anyone interested in ethics or practical reason will find it very rewarding.'

Source: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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Miscellaneous Frontmatter
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Introduction: The Method of Practical Reasoning
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1 - What's the Use of Utility?
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2 - Mill's Proof of the Principle of Utility
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3 - Does the Categorical Imperative Give Rise to a Contradiction in the Will?
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4 - Reasonably Virtuous
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5 - Murdoch, Practical Reasoning, and Particularism
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6 - Was Hume a Humean?
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7 - Hume on “Is” and “Ought”
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8 - Hume, Political Noncognitivism, and the History of England
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9 - Incommensurability and Practical Reasoning
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10 - Commensurability in Perspective
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11 - Varieties of Practical Reasoning and Varieties of Moral Theory
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-x

Miscellaneous Frontmatter
pp xi-xii

Introduction: The Method of Practical Reasoning
pp 1-32

1 - What's the Use of Utility?
pp 33-55

2 - Mill's Proof of the Principle of Utility
pp 56-88

3 - Does the Categorical Imperative Give Rise to a Contradiction in the Will?
pp 89-132

4 - Reasonably Virtuous
pp 133-167

5 - Murdoch, Practical Reasoning, and Particularism
pp 168-197

6 - Was Hume a Humean?
pp 198-217

7 - Hume on “Is” and “Ought”
pp 218-246

8 - Hume, Political Noncognitivism, and the History of England
pp 247-272

9 - Incommensurability and Practical Reasoning
pp 273-294

10 - Commensurability in Perspective
pp 295-311

11 - Varieties of Practical Reasoning and Varieties of Moral Theory
pp 312-326

References
pp 327-338

Index
pp 339-344

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