Preface
Introduction
1: Minimal Concepts
2: 'Ought' and 'Good'
3: Kinds of Goodness and Duty
4: Non-Naturalism
5: Intuitionism
6: Moral Truths: Underivative and Derived
7: Consequentialism vs. Deontology
8: Act-Consequentialism, Pluralist Deontology
9: Non-Moral Goods
10: Moral Goods
11: Your Good, Distribution, Punishment
12: Historians of Ethics
Bibliographical Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
Thomas Hurka is Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman Distinguished
Professor of Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto and
taught previously at the University of Calgary. He is the author of
several books primarily in the theory of value--Perfectionism (OUP,
1993), Virtue, Vice, and Value (OUP, 2001), and The Best Things in
Life (OUP, 2011)--and is the author of Underivative Duty: British
Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to
Ewing (OUP, 2011), as well as numerous articles in moral and
political philosophy. For a time he was a weekly ethics columnist
for the Globe and Mail newspaper.
This is a remarkable book. Thomas Hurka offers us an
extraordinarily rich account of the views of a century of British
moral philosophers . . . he also offers characteristically forceful
assessments of who was right and which changes of view were for the
better and which for the worse . . . Hurka's book is a wonderful
resource. The index alone is amazing.
*Jonathan Dancy, Notre dame Philosophical Reviews*
Hurka's study is a valuable contribution to the literature and will
surely succeed in stimulating more discussion of this period of
moral philosophy . . . Highly Recommended.
*Choice*
An absolutely marvelous book: chock-full of interesting discussions
of philosophically important ideas of a group of relatively
neglected philosophers who deserve to be much better known. Hurka
writes with enviable acuity, efficiency, and flair. And he makes a
convincing case that these figures constitute a golden age of
British ethical philosophy ... filled with wonderfully interesting
philosophy, both the school's and Hurka's, presented with great
clarity and lively and masterful prose. It is an important book,
both for the light it sheds on this rich philosophical period and
for the significance the school's ideas have for continuing debates
today. I could not recommend it more highly.
*Stephan Darwall, Ethics*
The quality of scholarship is tremendously high ... Hurka's book
leaves no doubt that the school from Sidgwick to Ewing marks a peak
in the history of moral philosophy. ... Every moral philosopher
should read it.
*Jonas Olson, Utilitas*
The value of this book ... is immense. The penetrating discussions
of such matters as Ross's different formulations of his position on
prima facie duties, of the Broad-Ewing defence of 'fittingness' as
the fundamental thin moral concept, ... and so on and on are deft,
scholarly, and wonderfully informative.
*Bart Schultz, Australasian Journal of Philosophy*
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