Moral Questions: by Rush Rhees

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Moral Judgements and Moral Theory....Pages 3-18
Morals and History....Pages 19-31
Some Developments in Wittgenstein’s View of Ethics....Pages 32-41
Responsibility to Society....Pages 42-45
‘Natural Law’ and Reasons in Ethics....Pages 46-50
On Knowing the Difference Between Right and Wrong....Pages 51-55
‘What are Moral Statements Like?’....Pages 56-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
‘The Right Answer’....Pages 65-74
‘Deciding What I Ought to Do’....Pages 75-99
Virtue and Knowledge....Pages 100-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Euthanasia....Pages 109-127
Suicide....Pages 128-130
Abortion....Pages 131-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Sexuality....Pages 139-150
The Tree of Nebuchadnezzar....Pages 151-158
Chastity....Pages 159-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Human Life and the Life of an Animal....Pages 167-173
Learning, Animals and Psychological Experiments....Pages 174-188
Humans and Animals: a Confused Christian Conception....Pages 189-196
The Death of a Dog....Pages 197-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Understanding What Men Do and Understanding the Lives Men Live....Pages 231-237
Self-Deception and Needs....Pages 238-240
Self-Deception and Mistakes....Pages 241-247
Morals and Imitation....Pages 248-250
Morals and Sincerity....Pages 251-255
‘Doing Something about It’....Pages 256-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-261