![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![Philosophy: The Power of Ideas](/sites/dl/free/076742011x/title/moorebruder_sm.jpg) Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e Brooke Moore Kenneth Bruder
Recent Moral and Political Philosophy
Key ObjectivesUpon completing this chapter you should be able to:
1.Distinguish normative ethics from metaethics. |
![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | 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. |
![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | 3.Explain what applied ethics is and why it is receiving more attention now from philosophers than it used to. |
![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | 4.State the two principles of distributive justice of John Rawls and explain why he thinks we should accept them too. |
![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | 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. |
![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | 6.Give Herbert Marcuse's account of why the Marxist revolution hasn't happened yet. |
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