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"Often described as the father of the Scottish Enlightenment, Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746) was born in the north of Ireland to an Ulster-Scottish Presbyterian family. Organised into three 'books' that were divided between two volumes, A System of Moral Philosophy was his most comprehensive work. It synthesised ideas that he had formulated as a minister and as the Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (1729–46). Published posthumously by his son in 1755, prefaced by an account of his life, it is the only treatise by Hutcheson for which a manuscript is known to have survived. Asserting that individual natural rights derive from an innate understanding of moral behaviour, Hutcheson offers a model that mediates between individual interests and communal ideals. Containing Book 1 and part of Book 2, Volume 1 describes the role and perception of 'perfect' and 'imperfect' natural rights."

"This fresh and innovative approach to human-environmental relations will revolutionise our understanding of the boundaries between ourselves and the environment we inhabit. The anthology is predicated on the notion that values shift back and forth between humans and the world around them in an ethical communicative zone called ‘value-space’. The contributors examine the transformative interplay between external environments and human values, and identify concrete ways in which these norms, residing in and derived from self and society, are projected onto the environment."

"Pemikiran Murdoch memberikan dobrakan besar dalam etika abad ke-20, bahkan begitu berbeda denganaliran utama filsafat moral selama 4000 tahun terakhir. Tesis Murdoch di dalam karya filosofis utamanya berjudul The Sovererignty of Good. Kita dapat melihat bahwa Murdoch dipengaruhi oleh ide tentang "Yang Baik" (The Good) dari Plato dan konsep " perhatian" (attention) dari Simone Weil. Dengan mengembangkan dua konsep kunci tersebut, Murdoch mengkritik pandangan filsafat analitik dari Ayer dan pandangan eksistensialisme dari Sartre bahwa dunia empiris bebas nilai dan moralitas tidak berkaitan dengan keadaan nyata di luar kita. Dengan mengkritik perkembangan etika pasca Kant, Murdoch semakin menajamkan pula pandangannya tentang " Yang Baik", serta jalan menuju kesana..."

"Updated and revised, Ethics: The Basics, Second Edition, introduces students to fundamental ethical concepts, principles, theories, and traditions while providing them with the conceptual tools necessary to think critically about ethical issues."