Ethics for A-Level
Intro -- Preface -- 1. Exam Specification Details -- 2. Book Structure -- References -- Introduction -- 1. Philosophy, Ethics and Thinking -- 2. Respecting Ethics -- 3. The A-Level Student -- 4. Doing Ethics Well: Legality versus Morality -- 5. Doing Ethics Well: Prudential Reasons versus Moral Reasons -- 6. Doing Ethics Well: Prescriptive versus Descriptive Claims -- 7. Doing Ethics Well: Thought-Experiments -- 8. Doing Ethics Well: Understanding Disagreement -- SUMMARY -- QUESTIONS AND TASKS -- References -- Part I -- NORMATIVE ETHICS -- Utilitarianism -- 1. Utilitarianism: An Introduction -- 2. Hedonism -- 3. Nozick's Experience Machine -- 4. The Foundations of Bentham's Utilitarianism -- 5. The Structure of Bentham's Utilitarianism -- 6. Hedonic Calculus -- 7. Problems with Bentham's Utilitarianism -- 8. Mill's Utilitarian Proof -- 9. Mill's Qualitative Utilitarianism -- 10. Mill's Rule Utilitarianism versus Bentham's Act Utilitarianism -- 11. Strong versus Weak Rule Utilitarianism -- 12. Comparing the Classical Utilitarians -- 13. Non-Hedonistic Contemporary Utilitarianism: Peter Singer and Preference Utilitarianism -- SUMMARY -- COMMON STUDENT MISTAKES -- ISSUES TO CONSIDER -- KEY TERMINOLOGY -- References -- Kantian Ethics -- 1. An Introduction to Kantian Ethics -- 2. Some Key Ideas -- 3. Acting for the Sake of Duty and Acting in Accordance with Duty -- 4. Categorical and Hypothetical Imperatives -- 5. The First Formulation of the Categorical Imperative -- 6. Perfect and Imperfect Duties -- 7. Second Formulation of the Categorical Imperative -- 8. The Third Formulation of the Categorical Imperative and Summary -- 9. Kant on Suicide -- 10. Problems and Responses: Conflicting Duties -- 11. Problems and Responses: The Role of Intuitions -- 12. Problem and Responses: Categorical Imperatives and Etiquette.