Ethical Theory: An Anthology

The left column on EVERY PAGE was cut short. Impossible read, especially being a philosophy book. Disappointed! I guess it can be used to start a fire come winter.

Perfect!

The media could not be loaded.  It is a very bad quality, as the significant part of the text is missing! It’s impossible to read and understand

Great for any ethics major.

purchased as a book for my PhD.

Large range of nice texts about ethicsl theories, explained for the non specialist in simple and clear language

i ordered a NEW copy not one that is marked up and has a slash down the back coverthe content of the book is great however

Its needed to have in for my class. Its amazing book to enhance your knowledge in ethical class. Its good to be your reference.

This is another academic book used in conjunction with Oxford University and is recommended by them as their choice of material. Also available on kindle books.

Brilliant! All the major writings on ethics are included. Found it really useful for my MA. Excellent value.

Bargain price on Amazon as it cost a fortune in bookstores. Excellent book, a must have if you are studying philosophy.

This anthology is extremely rich in content, but is sadly narrow in its conception of what counts as ethical theory. It should be called an anthology of analytical moral philosophy, or something like that. I find it extremely disappointing that in such a long anthology (82 chapters) only one type and tradition of ethical theorising is considered: the contemporary Anglo-American analytical tradition. There are some occasional token appearances of past philosophers, and, surprise surprise, they are obviously the usual suspects: Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Kant and Mill. It would be difficult to put together an anthology less surprising, less conventional and more parochial than this. That in such a long anthology you do not find Epicurus, Seneca and Cicero, that there is no trace of medieval or Christian ethics, that Montaigne, Lipsius, Spinoza, Mandeville, Adam Smith, Diderot and Rousseau do not find a place, that Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Bradley are not worth being included, that Santayana, Westermark, Spencer, Dewey and Unamuno have nothing to tell us, that no surprise awaits us (Durkheim? Gandhi? Simone Weil? Albert Schweitzer? Walter Kaufmann?), that traditions like phenomenology (Brentano, Scheler, Levinas), existentialism (Heidegger, Sartre), marxism and critical theory (Habermas, Apel, Honneth) are completely ignored… Well taken individually all these omissions are understandable and acceptable, but taken together they show a narrow-mindedness that I find worrying.On top of this the Kindle version is quite simply crap. How on hearth is it possible that an expert publisher like Blackwell produces a Kindle version of an anthology like this, where the table of contents does not even mention the authors of the excerpts! And this is only the most absurd feature of the Kindle version. Whoever is responsible for having produced it should be fired as thoroughly incompetent.