Charles Pidgin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of a number of papers on Bertrand Russell and on meta-ethics generally, including the chapter 'Naturalism' in Peter Singer's prize winning A Companion to Ethics(Oxford 1991)
Russell on Ethics presents a coherent and comprehensive collection of Russell's ethical writings, drawing on a wide range of his publications on ethical concerns, many of which have been difficult to access by students and general readers. Charles Pigden provides an accessible introduction to the papers, situating them within the field of ethics as a whole and detailed annotations on the papers themselves, analysing their arguments and exploring their relevance to current concerns. Russell on Ethics represents a valuable insight into Russell as an ethicist, which will be useful to both specialist and non-specialist alike.
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RUSSELL - wide appeal - philosophers, ethicists, Bloomsbury fans
Coherent and comprehensive collection of Russell's papers on ethical subjects.
Part of comprehensive series of Russell On... various lines of philosophy.
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Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. A Moralist in the Making: The Pre-principia Writings. Part II. Meta-Ethics. Part III. Reasons and the Passions. Part IV. The Function of Morality. V. Contemplation and the Good Life. Bibliography
Charles Pigden provides an accessible introduction to Russell's writings within the field of ethics as a whole by analyzing their arguments and exploring their relevance to current concerns.
Excellent introduction notes by the editor. Required reading for students of Russell's work' - Network
Charles Pigden provides an introduction to Bertrand Russell's writings within the field of ethics as a whole, and detailed annotations on his papers themselves, analyzing their arguments and exploring their relevance to current concerns.
Über den Autor
Charles Pidgin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of a number of papers on Bertrand Russell and on meta-ethics generally, including the chapter 'Naturalism' in Peter Singer's prize winning A Companion to Ethics(Oxford 1991)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. A Moralist in the Making: The Pre-principia Writings. Part II. Meta-Ethics. Part III. Reasons and the Passions. Part IV. The Function of Morality. V. Contemplation and the Good Life. Bibliography
Klappentext
Although Bertrand Russell was famous as a practical moralist, who wrote about war and peace, marriage and sexuality, eugenics and population policy, he is largely unknown as an ethical theorist. This collection of Russell's writings, many of them not readily available, presents his development as an ethical thinker
Charles Pigden introduces the writings and situates them within the study of ethics and explores the relevance of Russell's ethical essays to current issues. Russell was a pioneer of both emotivism and error theory, the two anti-realist theories that have dominated the twentieth century debate, and contributed to the discussions of the ethical implications of Darwinism. This book is a philosophical narrative of one of the most respected thinkers of the twentieth century.
