Key Objectives

Upon completing this chapter you should be able to:

1.

Distinguish normative ethics from metaethics.

2.

Give the metaethical positions of G. E. Moore on goodness, W. D. Ross on rightness, and the emotivists on the meaning of moral judgments and the is/ought distinction.

3.

Explain what applied ethics is and why it is receiving more attention now from philosophers than it used to.

4.

State the two principles of distributive justice of John Rawls and explain why he thinks we should accept them too.

5.

Distinguish Rawls's "justice as fairness" from Robert Nozick's entitlement theory of justice and the communitarian theories of Michael Sandel and Alasdair Mac Intyre.

6.

Give Herbert Marcuse's account of why the Marxist revolution hasn't happened yet.

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