In The Fundamentals of Ethics, Fourth Edition, author Russ Shafer-Landau employs a uniquely engaging writing style to introduce students to the essential ideas of moral philosophy. Offering more comprehensive coverage of the good life, normative ethics, and metaethics than any other text of its kind, this book also addresses issues that are often omitted from other texts, such as the doctrine of doing and allowing, the doctrine of double effect, ethical particularism, the desire-satisfaction theory of well-being, moral error theory, and Ross's theory of prima facie duties. Shafer-Landau carefully reconstructs and analyzes dozens of arguments in depth, at a level that is understandable to students with no prior philosophical background.
Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of several books including Living Ethics (OUP, 2018) and The Ethical Life, Fourth Edition (OUP, 2017). He is also the editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics.
- "想想德莫尔施瓦茨（ Delmore Schwartz）的悲故事。施瓦茨是杰出的作家和演说家，是尔·贝娄（ Saul Bellow）的小说《洪堡的礼物》(Humboldt's Gift)主人公的原型。施瓦兹在他的职业生涯早期获得了很多奖项，并在普林斯顿大学和哈佛大学任教多年。但他的最后十年却是在无尽的沮丧和孤独中度过的。他沉溺于酒精和毒品，罹患越来越严重的妄想症和精神疾病，最终独自死在时代广场家破旧的旅馆里。他早年的潜质前功尽弃。 我们不可能历数施瓦茨一生经历了多少幸福和悲伤。但是，设想一个相反的例子，一个早年生活在痛苦和悲伤中的人，例如，简・爱（ Jane Eyre）、雾都孤儿奥利弗崔斯特（ "
- "These can be grouped under three headings, each represent- ing a core area of moral philosophy: 1. Value theory 2. Normative ethics 3. Metaethics"
- "most of those who harbor serious doubts about morality base their skepticism on one or more of the following considerations: (A) Individuals constantly disagree about what's right and wrong, and societies do, too. If there were some objective truth in ethics, then we should expect all really smart p"
- "There are reasonable constraints that can guide us when thinking about how to live. Here are some of them: • Neither the law nor tradition is immune from moral criticism. • Everyone is morally fallible. • Friendship is valuable. • We are not obligated to do the impossible. • Children bear less moral"
- "We can also better understand morality by contrasting its principles with those that govern the law, etiquette, self-interest, and tradition."
- "In other words, our moral thinking should have two complementary goals: getting it right, and being able to back up our views with flawless reasoning."
- "What we want in philosophy, as in all other areas of inquiry, are arguments that have two features: (1) they are logically watertight (valid), and (2) all of their premises are true. These arguments are known as sound arguments."
- "But there is a set of vital questions that such experts will never answer. These are questions about how we ought to live."
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The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax (Oxford Handbooks)
The Fasces
The Primacy of Doubt
Landscape and Space
Future Morality
Figurines