Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction – Second Edition

· Broadview Press
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Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction offers an explication and critique of the major theories that have shaped philosophical ethics. DeNicola explores the scope, limits, and requirements of morality, outlining our various attempts to ground it: in religion, in nature, in culture, in social contracts, and in aspects of the human person such as reason, emotions, caring, and intuition.

This second edition includes a new chapter discussing postmodernism, standpoint theory, and intersectionality. This chapter examines the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Kimberlé Willliams Crenshaw, and others. Several new case studies have been added, as have discussions of effective altruism, universalist care ethics, and the views of Charles Mills and Carole Pateman.

Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction offers an explication and critique of the major theories that have shaped philosophical ethics. DeNicola explores the scope, limits, and requirements of morality, outlining our various attempts to ground it: in religion, in nature, in culture, in soci...

About the author

Daniel R. DeNicola is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and former Provost at Gettysburg College. He is the editor of A Reader in Moral Philosophy, and author of Learning to Flourish: A Philosophical Exploration of Liberal Education and Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don’t Know, winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Philosophy.

Daniel R. DeNicola is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and former Provost at Gettysburg College. He is the editor of A Reader in Moral Philosophy, and author of Learning to Flourish: A Philosophical Exploration of Liberal Education and Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don...

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