The Fundamentals of Ethics Russ ShaferLandau Books
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In The Fundamentals of Ethics, Third Edition, author Russ Shafer-Landau employs a uniquely engaging writing style to introduce students to the essential ideas of moral philosophy. Offering more comprehensive coverage of the good life, normative ethics, and metaethics than any other text of its kind, this book also addresses issues that are often omitted from other texts, such as the doctrine of doing and allowing, the doctrine of double effect, ethical particularism, the desire-satisfaction theory of well-being, and moral error theory. Shafer-Landau carefully reconstructs and analyzes dozens of arguments in depth, at a level that is understandable to students with no prior philosophical background. The text is supplemented by an online Instructor's Manual and Computerized Test Bank and a Companion Website with student self-quizzes and additional resources.
Ideal for courses in introductory ethics and contemporary moral problems, this book can be used as a stand-alone text or with the author's companion reader, The Ethical Life Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems, Third Edition.
The Fundamentals of Ethics Russ ShaferLandau Books
This review is mainly directed at the printing of the book rather than its content, as the book itself is fantastic and Shafer-Landau offers a wonderful introduction to mainstream moral theories.The problem with the edition I've bought (Fourth Edition) is that Chapters 14 and 15 are repeated. Literally the exact same chapters but the page numbers kept going. Luckily this didn't affect my coursework since we never discussed those two chapters, but I assume it might be confusing for other courses or a casual reader.
Good thing the chapters themselves aren't missing (at least that I've noticed) but for a Fourth Edition you'd think something as obvious as repeated chapters would be ironed out. 3 stars deducted for an otherwise great book.
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The Fundamentals of Ethics Russ ShaferLandau Books Reviews
Bought this as required reading material for one of my college classes and hardly used it. Gifted it to my uncle once I passed the class since he loves books like these. It's not a bad read.
The book gives you everything you need to know to break into Ethical philosophy. If you purchase this you MUST purchase The Ethical LIfe also by Russ Shafer-Landau. It contains supplemental readings that are outlined to be read simultaneously with this book. The combination gives you a full experience, teaching you the basics, then letting you read philosophical papers to let you ponder on where you stand with your own morals and ethics. I recommend this to all who like, love, or are remotely interested in philosophy.
Well written book. I needed this book for an introductory Ethics class having no previous experience with philosophy or ethics. This book was a lifesaver in the class. It is written very clearly and all arguments are explained well. Both sides of arguments were offered and I was provided with tools to analyze different ethical positions. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.
Fascinating book, I had to get it for class but it is a wonderful book full of thought provoking questions and ideas that you will not find in most other books. The concepts range from basic and easy to understand to very challenging ones that require some thought. It will demand you to take sides on issues you have not really thought about before in that way. The core goal of this literature is to make you more informed and have a better understanding of issues we have as humans, and what we should do about them.
This is just the first edition and I notice that the second edition came out only two years later, however I still think this book is worth the cheap price that it is being sold for.
Shafer goes over the basics in this introductory book in ethics as he goes over different ethical theories such as
Hedonism, Desire Theory, Divine Command Theory, Natural Law Theory, Psychological Egoism, Feminist Ethics, Ethical Egoism, Consequentialism, Kantian ethics, Social contract theory and Virtue ethics. Shafer spends a good deal of time giving arguments for and against these views with a good amount of fairness.
He then takes on the status of morality whilst giving us a good primer on the metaethical positions such as ethical objectivism and moral relativism, and moral nihilism.
Moral nihilism is broken up into two parts
Error Theory and Expressivism, both views IMO are the toughest to take down, and I say this as someone who holds to a version of Divine Command Theory. Shafer shows its flaw, but I think more work is
Shafer really lets it rip on moral relativism and definitely takes off the gloves in his criticism
Russ Shafer Landau explains
"Subjectivism is unable to explain the existence of moral disagreement. In order to avoid generating contradictions, subjectivists have to understand all moral judgments as reports of whether I approve of something or not. The claim that meat-eating is wrong becomes the claim that I disapprove of meat-eating....but on this line, moral debates that seem to involve intense disagreement become something completely different. In fact now it becomes IMPOSSIBLE for people to morally disagree with one another.
To see this imagine an earlier dispute
You say It's wrong to eat meat
Your friend says It's ok to eat meat
The subjectivist translates this as follows
You I disapprove of eating meat.
Your friend I approve of eating meat.
The contradiction has indeed disappeared, BUT SO HAS THE DISAGREEMENT. If you are both taking this seriously, you'll agree with your friend's claim, and she with yours. If all that moral judgments do is report people's outlooks, then there is no way to morally disagree with anyone - except to charge them with insincerity. But that seems plainly wrong"
- QED
The few cons of this book are as follows
The objection to the Divine Command theory is terrible, Shafer acts like we've never heard of the Euthyphro before and doesn't give any replies from formidable Theist philosophers who have knocked it down. (William Alston, Robert Adams).
I would have liked more substance on why moral facts exist. (though I guess he wants us to check out his book on moral realism for that)
Shafer is an elite moral philosopher in academia and he is someone who I find to be enlightening on this subject. I will continue to use his works on moral philosophy, along with Robert Adams and John Hare.
My class required the text book but I couldn't make sense of the content so I ended up not reading it. The other wrote their opinion and hardly wrote down facts about the theories and philosophers. 3/5 I'm just happy I paid $14 and not $89 dollars at the bookstore.
Russ Shafer-Landau's The Fundamentals of Ethics was just one of the books assigned in a semester's worth of reading for my graduate studies. Philosophy texts are usually a chore to read, and many of them are quite boring. However, there was never an instance where I did not look forward to reading Fundamentals when I had to fulfill the week's reading assignment. I cannot think of any other textbook I have owned that I could say that about!
Shafer-Landau's writing is lucid and engaging, sprinkled with wit and humor and brilliant summaries of complex moral theories. Perhaps some could complain that his treatment of various views is oversimplified, but that would miss the point. The purpose of the text is to introduce the reader to popular theories of normative systems of ethics, and give a short defense of his preferred view of moral objectivity. If one wants to dive deeper, one will find abundant references to primary sources easily found in one of Shafer-Landau's edited volumes (e.g. Ethical Theory An Anthology).
This book serves the purpose of education well in that it mercifully introduces the reader to thinking about ethics in a way that invites more learning--not just for learning's sake--but for living well.
This review is mainly directed at the printing of the book rather than its content, as the book itself is fantastic and Shafer-Landau offers a wonderful introduction to mainstream moral theories.
The problem with the edition I've bought (Fourth Edition) is that Chapters 14 and 15 are repeated. Literally the exact same chapters but the page numbers kept going. Luckily this didn't affect my coursework since we never discussed those two chapters, but I assume it might be confusing for other courses or a casual reader.
Good thing the chapters themselves aren't missing (at least that I've noticed) but for a Fourth Edition you'd think something as obvious as repeated chapters would be ironed out. 3 stars deducted for an otherwise great book.
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