Index human nature 11-12, 104 postmodernism 111-15
Bentham 71
121-5
absolutism 19-24
Ancient Greece 25-47 humanism 51
genes 16-17, 62-3 prescriptivism 96-7
Prince, The 52-3
animals 146-55
Hume, David 88-94, 111
anthropic principle 173 Hutton , Will 131
rationalism 37
Antisthenes 45
Aquinas , St. Thomas 49-50 imagination 86, 97
see also Kant, Immanuel
Rawls, John 125-7
Aristotle 4 , 40-4, 49, 128 individualist philosophy 5 realism 19 Ayer, A.J . 95 instinct 63 reason 111
"is-ought" gap 89, 92 reciprocity rule 9
Barthes, Roland 117
relativism 17-18, 23-4
Bauman, Zygmunt 119, Kant, Immanuel 79-86, 146 religion 10, 28
euthanasia 166
see also Christianity
121 , 123
Kohlberg , Lawrence 137 Republic, The 35-6
belief systems 8
Bentham , Jeremy 68-74 knowledge 37
right vs . wrong 34
167
Kristeva, Julia 135
Kropotkin, Peter 60
capitalism 65, 115-16, 127
categorical imperative 84 Lacan , Jacques 108
Christianity 9, 11-12, 48-9 language 114
rights 147-9
Romantic Movement 57-9
Rorty, Richard 118
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
57-9
civilization 57
class 66-7
Language of Morals, The rules 9, 19-21 , 84-5
96
communitarian philosophy 5 Language, Truth and Logic Sartre, Jean-Paul 98-102 cultures 20-1, 23 95 Second World War 1 09-11 Cynics, the 45 Lyotard, Jean-Franc;ois 111 slavery 29
social democracy 26-7
Machiavelli, Niccolo 52-4 being, man as 4
deontologism 81-2, 85 Macintyre, Alasdair 128-31 ethics 125 Derrida, Jacques 111 Marcuse, Herbert 116 gene 62 Descartes, Rene 146 Marx, Karl 64-7, 116-17 justice 127 duty 81-3 mathematics 37 Social Contract, the 55
Mill , J .S. 68, 74-7, 79, 167 Socrates 4 , 10, 30-5
modernism 119-20
State, the 4
emotivism 95
Stoics 46
environment 15-17, 140-5 moral
Epicureans 47
euthanasia 156-69
evil 114
existentialism 98, 122
autonomy 106-7
imagination 86
morality 3 , 5 , 8
subjectivists 93, 104
teleological view 32
Ancient Greece 25-4 7 Treatise of Human Nature, Plato 39 A88
false consciousness 66 and religion 9
feminist approach 134-9 murder 8
tribal society 123-4
truth 22, 85
Forms, the 38 Foucault, Michel 117 Natural Law 46, 50
unconscious, the 106-7,
free will 15, 115, 121-3 Nietzsche, Friedrich 113, 118 108
see also Sartre
Freud, Sigmund 105-7
Nussbaum, Martha 134 universalism 19
objectivists 93
Utilitarianism 68-77
animals 149, 151-3
genetic determinism 14
the environment 143-5
genetics, role of 13-17 pain-pleasure principle see euthanasia 167-8 Gramsci , Antonio 116 Bentham Greek philosophy 128-9 persons argument 154-5 virtue theory 128, 169
philosophy 5, 27, 29
happiness 71-2, 75, 78-9 Philosophy of Moral
Hare, Richard 96
Development 137
Hobbes, Thomas 54-7 Plato 35-9
Holocaust, the 109
pluralism 77
Williams, Bernard 78
Wilson, Edward 0 . 60
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 146
Wollstonecraft, Mary 135
