Moral Theory – A Non–Consequentialist Approach

Preface and Acknowledgements.
<p>1 Ethics, Knowledge and Action.</p>
<p>1.1 Introduction.</p>
<p>1.2 Ethics and Knowledge.</p>
<p>The Fact–Value Distinction.</p>
<p>Relativism.</p>
<p>Prescriptivism and Expressivism.</p>
<p>1.3 Ethics and Action.</p>
<p>2 Basic Concepts in Moral Theory I.</p>
<p>2.1 Introduction.</p>
<p>2.2 The Good.</p>
<p>2.3 Virtue.</p>
<p>2.4 Rights and Duties.</p>
<p>2.5 Rights and Contracts.</p>
<p>2.6 Rights and Consequentialism.</p>
<p>2.7 Collision of Rights.</p>
<p>3 Basic Concepts in Moral Theory II.</p>
<p>3.1 Intention and Foresight.</p>
<p>Good, Evil and the Will.</p>
<p>The Principle of Double Effect.</p>
<p>Criticisms of PDE and Replies.</p>
<p>3.2 Acts and Omissions.</p>
<p>Another Derided Distinction.</p>
<p>Initial Clarifications of AOD.</p>
<p>The Derided Distinction Defended.</p>
<p>4 Close–Up on the Good of Life.</p>
<p>4.1 Life as a Good.</p>
<p>4.2 The Right to Life and the Sanctity of Life.</p>
<p>4.3 The Sanctity of Life and its Critics:.</p>
<p>Innocence.</p>
<p>A Life Not Worth Living?.</p>
<p>4.4 Persons and Human Beings.</p>
<p>Notes and Further Reading.</p>
<p>Index.</p>