The Ethics Toolkit

Acknowledgements.
INTRODUCTION.
I The Grounds of Ethics.
1.1 Aesthetics.
1.2 Agency.
1.3 Authority.
1.4 Autonomy.
1.5 Care.
1.6 Character.
1.7 Conscience.
1.8 Evolution.
1.9 Finitude.
1.10 Flourishing.
1.11 Harmony.
1.12 Interest.
1.13 Intuition.
1.14 Merit.
1.15 Natural Law.
1.16 Need.
1.17 Pain and pleasure.
1.18 Revelation.
1.19 Rights.
1.20 Sympathy.
1.21 Tradition and history.
II Frameworks for Ethics.
2.1 Consequentialism.
2.2 Contractarianism.
2.3 Cultural critique.
2.4 Deontological ethics.
2.5 Discourse Ethics.
2.6 Divine command.
2.7 Egoism.
2.8 Hedonism.
2.9 Naturalism.2.10 Particularism.
2.11 Perfectionism.
2.12 Pragmatism.
2.13 Rationalism.
2.14 Relativism.
2.15 Subjectivism.
2.16 Virtue ethics.
III Central Concepts in Ethics.
3.1 Absolute/Relative.
3.2 Act/Rule.
3.3 Bad/evil.
3.4 Beneficence/non-maleficence.
3.5 Cause/reason.
3.6 Cognitivism/non-cognitivism.
3.7 Commission/omission.
3.8 Consent.
3.9 Facts/values.
3.10 The Golden Mean.
3.11 Honour/shame.
3.12 Individual/collective.
3.13 Injury.
3.14 Intentions/consequences.
3.15 Internalism/externalism.
3.16 Intrinsic/instrumental Value.
3.17 Legal/moral.
3.18 Liberation/oppression.
3.19 Means/ends.
3.20 Metaethics/normative ethics.
3.21 Moral subjects/moral agents.
3.22 Prudence.
3.23 Public and private.
3.24 Stoic cosmopolitanism.
IV Assessment, Judgement & Critique.
4.1 Alienation.
4.2 Authenticity.
4.3 Consistency.
4.4 Counterexamples.
4.5 Fairness.
4.6 Fallacies.
4.7 Impartiality and Objectivity.
4.8 The 'is/ought' gap.
4.9 Justice and lawfulness.
4.10 Just war theory.
4.11 Paternalism.
4.12 Proportionality.
4.13 Reflective equilibrium.
4.14 Restoration.
4.15 Sex and gender.
4.16 Speciesism.
4.17 Thought Experiments.
4.18 Universalisability.
V The Limits of Ethics.
5.1 Akrasia.
5.2 Amoralism.
5.3 Bad faith and self-deception.
5.4 Casuistry and Rationalisation.
5.5 Fallenness.
5.6 False consciousness.
5.7 Free

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