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Edited and translated by Roger Crisp, St Anne's College, Oxford. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Online publication date: June 2012. Print publication year: 2000. Online ISBN: 9780511802058.
5 de dic. de 2013 · Abstract. This chapter concerns whether the best account of virtue will involve the idea that an agent can ‘go beyond’ duty in a morally praiseworthy way. The chapter begins by outlining Henry Sidgwick’s view that supererogation involves an immoral paradox, since it seems to allow a morally blameless agent to do less morally than she might.
11 de ago. de 2015 · Abstract. This paper defends moral testimony pessimism, the view that there is something morally or epistemically regrettable about relying on the moral testimony of others, against several arguments in Lillehammer (2014).
6 de nov. de 2001 · We think happiness to be such, and indeed the thing most of all worth choosing, not counted as just one thing among others’ (Nicomachean Ethics, 1097b, tr. Crisp). In other words, if you claim that well-being consists only in friendship and pleasure, I can show your list to be unsatisfactory if I can demonstrate that knowledge is also something that makes people better off.
6 de may. de 2019 · Editors Star and Crisp, noted scholars in their fields, expertly introduce the readings to illuminate the main philosophical ideas and arguments in each selection, and connect them to broader themes. These detailed and incisive editorial commentaries make the primary source texts accessible to students while guiding them chronologically through the history of Western ethics.
Based on lectures Aristotle gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy, and has profoundly influenced the whole course of subsequent philosophical endeavour. It offers seminal, practically oriented discussions of many central ethical issues, including the role of luck in ...
17 de ago. de 2021 · 17 August 2021. Professor Roger Crisp has written an article in the New Statesman: Would extinction be so bad? 'Given the amount of suffering on Earth, the value of the continued existence of the planet is an open question.'.
