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Moral Questions

by Rush Rhees

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. D. Z. Phillips

    1. University College of Wales, Swansea, UK
      Claremont Graduate University, USA

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Part of the book series: Swansea Studies in Philosophy (SWSP)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Philosophical Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Moral Judgements and Moral Theory

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      Pages 3-18

    3. Morals and History

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      Pages 19-31

    4. Some Developments in Wittgenstein’s View of Ethics

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      Pages 32-41

    5. Responsibility to Society

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      Pages 42-45

    6. ‘Natural Law’ and Reasons in Ethics

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      Pages 46-50

    7. On Knowing the Difference Between Right and Wrong

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      Pages 51-55

    8. ‘What are Moral Statements Like?’

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      Pages 56-61

  3. The Personal in Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. ‘The Right Answer’

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      Pages 65-74

    3. ‘Deciding What I Ought to Do’

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      Pages 75-99

    4. Virtue and Knowledge

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      Pages 100-106

  4. Issues of Life and Death

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Euthanasia

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      Pages 109-127

    3. Suicide

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      Pages 128-130

    4. Abortion

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      Pages 131-135

  5. Sexuality and Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Sexuality

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      Pages 139-150

    3. The Tree of Nebuchadnezzar

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      Pages 151-158
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About this book

Rush Rhees questions the viability of moral theories and the general claims they make in ethics. He shows how one can both be concerned with knowing what one ought to do while recognising that one's answer is a personal one. These insights, arrived at in a distinctive style, characteristic of Rhees, are then applied to issues of life and death, human sexuality and our relations to animals. To recognise why philosophy cannot answer such questions for us is an affirmation, not a denial, of their importance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University College of Wales, Swansea, UK

    D. Z. Phillips

  • Claremont Graduate University, USA

    D. Z. Phillips

About the editor

RUSH RHEES taught at Swansea from 1940 to 1966. After retirement he became an Honorary Professor and Fellow of the College. He was Wittgenstein's literary executor.

D. Z. PHILLIPS became Rush Rhees' student in 1952 and was closely acquainted with him until his death in 1989. He is Director of the Rush Rhees Archive.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Moral Questions

  • Book Subtitle: by Rush Rhees

  • Editors: D. Z. Phillips

  • Series Title: Swansea Studies in Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598690

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22355-7Published: 25 November 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-41137-5Published: 25 November 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59869-0Published: 12 August 1999

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 261

  • Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy

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