伦理学

出版时间：2003-1-1  出版社：北京大学出版社  作者：芭芭拉・麦凯南  页数：480  字数：890000  
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前言

　　中国是伦理思想的富国，先贤对道德人生的探讨源远流长，其理论和信念也曾颇为有效地维系了一个人口众多的政治社会共同体的延续和发展。现代意义上的伦理学学科史则只有一百余年的历史，这个时间虽然比起前面几千年的中国伦理思想的历史要短得多，其影响却几乎笼罩了今天我们的伦理学探讨：我们今天所使用的伦理学主要概念、术语以及习惯性的思维，大都是从西方来的。　　近处的东西容易挡住远处的东西，即使这近处的东西较小。如果我们不意识到这一点，它就会像一副眼罩一样，遮蔽许多有意义的东西。但如果我们有反省精神，则我们还是可以使之变

内容概要

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书籍目录

PART ONE ETHICAL THEORY1.Ethics and Ethical  ReasoningWhy Study Ethics?What Is Ethics?Ethical and ReligionEthics and  ArgumentsEthical ThioryTypes of Ethical TheoryCan Ethics Be Taught?READUBGSPlato EuthyphroPhato MenoReview ExercisesSelected Biliography2.Ethical RelativismWhat Is Ethical Relativism?Two Forms of Ethical RelativismReasons Supporting Ethical RelativismAre These Reasons ConincingFurther ConsiderationsMoral RealismMorol PluralismREADINGMary MidgleyReview ExercisesSelected Bibliography……3.Egoism4.Utilitarianism5.Kant'Moral Theory……

章节摘录

　　Evaluating Natural Law Theory　　Natural law theory has many appealing characteristics, including its belief in the objectivity of moral values and the notion of the good as human flourishing. Various criticisms of the theory have also been advanced, including the following two.　　First, according to natural law theory, we are to determine what we ought to do from deciphering the moral law as it is written into nature——specifically, human nature. One problem that natural law theory must address concerns our ability to read nature. The moral law is supposedly knowable by natural human reason, but various thinkers throughout the history of philosophy have read nature differently. Even Aristotle, for example, thought that slavery could be justified in that it was in accord with nature.17 Today, people argue against slavery on just such natural law grounds.18 Philosopher Thomas Hobbes defended the absolutist rule of despots and John Locke criticized it, both doing so on natural law grounds. Moreover, traditional natural law theory has picked out highly positive traits: the desire to know the truth, to choose the good, and to develop as healthy mature beings. Not all views of the essential characteristics of human nature have been so positive, however. Some philosophers have depicted human nature as deceitful, evil, and uncontrolled. This is why Hobbes argued that we need a strong government. Without it, he wrote, life in a state of nature would be "nasty, brutish, and short."19　　Moreover, if nature is taken in the broader sense, meaning all of nature, and if a natural law as a moral law were based on this, then this general approach might even cover such theories as Social Darwinism. This view holds that because the most fit organisms in nature are the ones that survive, so also the most fit should endure in human society and the weaker ought to perish. When combined with a belief in capitalism, this led to notions such as that it was only right and according to nature that wealthy industrialists at the end of the nineteenth century were rich and powerful. It also implied that the poor were so by the designs of nature and we ought not interfere with this situation.　　A second question raised for natural law theory is the following. Can the way things are by nature provide the basis for knowing how they ought to be？ On the face of it, this may not seem right. Just because something exists in a certain way does not necessarily mean that it is good. Floods, famine, and disease all exist, but that does not make them good. According to David Hume, as noted in our discussion of Mill's proof of the Principle of Utility in Chapter 4, you cannot derive an "ought" from an "is."2~~ Evaluations cannot simply be derived from factual matters. Other moral philosophers have agreed. When we know something to be a fact that things exist in a certain way, it still remains an open question whether it is good. However, the natural law assumes that nature is teleological, that it has a certain directedness. In Aristotle's terms, it moves toward its natural goal, its final purpose. Yet from the time of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, such final purposes have become suspect. One could not always observe nature's directedness, and it came to be associated with the notion of nonobservable spirits directing things from within. If natural law theory does depend on there being purposes in nature, it must be able to explain how this can be so.　　……

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　　《伦理学：原理及当代论争》涉及的具体争论有：伦理相对主义、个人主义、功利、义务、美德、性别、安乐死、堕胎、性道德、平等与歧视、分配与公正、惩罚与刑罚、环境与动物权利、暴力与战争、科技和职业伦理，等等。　　《伦理学：原理及当代论争》是一本广为称引的优秀伦理学参考书。

用户评论 (总计11条)

•   1、应该翻译成“伦理学：理论及当今论点”；2、收到的书的封面与当当网上的封面不一致。3、书还是不错的！
•   挺厚的一本，是我的专业书，想赶在开学之前准备一下专业英语，所以就买了，刚刚到手，简单一翻还是很不错的。
•   封面怎么和实体书不同的啊？版本、章节、出版社那些都是对的，怎么弄了个压根不是这个原书封面的书显示？我很好奇你这个购买页的封面是怎么来的.....
•   印刷很好，字体大小合适，还未认真读，内容结构合理。
•   灰常好。发人深省。只是思考完以后还不是那个样子。。木有结论的东西。。哲学啊。。。。
•   对于学英语来说显得艰深，对于想学习专业英语的人来说是一本好素材
•   比较有用，很好
•   不错 就是字有点小==
•   今天收到货后发现除封面外内容全是英文，已申请退货，也是第一次申请退货，不知是否能顺利进行。
•   这本书打算近期读。
•   不好意思我没有看清楚是英文版的，看不懂啊退货了，当当网很有诚信！