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The Right and the Good (British Moral Philosophers) (edition 2003)

by David Ross, Philip Stratton-Lake (Editor)

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The Right and the Good, a classic of twentieth-century philosophy by the eminent scholar Sir David Ross, is now presented in a new edition with a substantial introduction by Philip Stratton-Lake, a leading expert on Ross. Ross's book is the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral theory in British philosophy for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Intuitionism is now enjoying a considerable revival, and Stratton-Lake provides the context for a proper understanding of Ross's great work today.… (more)
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Title:The Right and the Good (British Moral Philosophers)
Authors:David Ross
Other authors:Philip Stratton-Lake (Editor)
Info:Oxford University Press (2003), Ausgabe: 2, Paperback, 256 Seiten
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Tags:to-read, philosophy, 20th century, ethics, moral philosophy, intuitionism, ethical intuitionism, british philosophy, analytic philosophy

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[The human mind] has in fact an a priori insight into certain broad principles of morality, and it can distinguish between a more and a less adequate recognition of these principles. [...] There is a system of moral truth, as objective as all truth must be, which, and whose implications, we are interested in discovering.

I would give five stars to the first two chapters on "the right," and three stars to the remaining chapters on "the good." Ross's insights into the nature of right action via prima facie duties is compelling and well-argued, but his complicated parsing of Moorean goodness left me as unconvinced and confused as reading Principia Ethica. ( )
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This 1930 edition reprinted ibn 1946, 1950, 1955. Some deontologists are moral absolutists, believing that certain actions are absolutely right or wrong, regardless of the intentions behind them as well as the consequences which ensue from them. For example, Immanuel Kant had argued that the only absolutely good thing is a good will, and thus, the single determining factor of whether an action is morally right is the will or volition of the action's agent, or the motive of the person doing the action. If such persons are acting on a bad (or false) maxim, e.g. "I will lie", then their action is morally wrong, even if some good consequences indeed proceed from performing the action. On the other hand, non-absolutist deontologists, such as William David Ross, hold that the consequences of SOME actions (such as lying or cheating or stealing or harming maliciously) may sometimes make lying the right thing to do. Jonathan Baron and Mark Spranca use the term "protected values" when referring to values governed by deontological rules. ( )
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The Right and the Good, a classic of twentieth-century philosophy by the eminent scholar Sir David Ross, is now presented in a new edition with a substantial introduction by Philip Stratton-Lake, a leading expert on Ross. Ross's book is the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral theory in British philosophy for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Intuitionism is now enjoying a considerable revival, and Stratton-Lake provides the context for a proper understanding of Ross's great work today.

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