Normative Ethics by Shelly Kagan
A clear, rigorous survey of competing answers to the question of what makes actions morally right, this book explains central concepts (value, moral reasons, obligations, permissions, supererogation) and systematically examines major normative frameworks—consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics—along with influential alternatives and hybrids. It analyzes how these theories treat issues such as impartiality, the aggregation of reasons, the moral status of persons, and distributive justice, evaluates classic objections and defenses, and highlights methodological matters about moral justification and practical reason. The result is both an accessible introduction for students and a critical, philosophically careful treatment that presses readers to compare theoretical virtues and to articulate and defend their own views about what we morally ought to do.
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