Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Factors in Ethical Judgment: From Atomistic Moral Decision to Goods, Construals, Character, and the Social Implications of Moral Judgments
1: Existential Choices and Dislocations
2: Construals, Valencing
3: The Relevance of Construal and Valencing to Good Choice
4: The Importance of Character
5: Personal Morality and Its Social Implications
6: Steps to Theory
Part II
7: The Bases of Ethical Theory
8: The Need for a Moral Order
9: The Logic of Consequentialism
10: Some Difficulties of Consequentialism
11: The Evolution of Ethical Theories
12: A Modulated Case for the Primacy of Qualities of Life
Appendix: Virtue Ethics
Index

About the Author

Joel J. Kupperman is Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, and the author of Classic Asian Philosophy (Oxford, second edition 2006), and Six Myths About the Good Life (2006), among other books.