Chisholm, Roderick M.
Ethics and Intrinsic Values

Edited and introduced by John R. White.

Four "Academy Lectures", presented at the International Academy of Philosophy, Liechtenstein, addressing skepticism, knowledge, probability, and belief, are accompanied by eight papers chosen by Chisholm himself as representative of his ethical writings. - This volume contains, at Chisholm's own will, the detailed "Academy Lectures", a series held at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein, which Chisholm visited several times. Besides his thorough critical investigations into skepticism, knowledge, probability, and belief, in which he develops original ideas about a 'doxastic ethics' of intellectual consent, the book contains collected papers chosen by Chisholm himself as representative of his ethical writings, including his thought on absolute and never overridden moral obligations (referring both to what we never ought to do and what we always ought to do). This Chisholmean version of a nonformalistic, deontic, antiutilitarian, anticonsequentialist, and nonteleological but eminently positive ethics based on intrinsic values deserves serious study. - From the Table of Contents: Preface by John R. White. - I. ACADEMY LECTURES: 1. Knowledge and the Challenge of the Skeptic; 2. The Things That Are Intrinsically Good; 3. Requirement, Duty and Intrinsic Value; 4. The Defeat of Good and Evil. -- II. COLLECTED PAPERS ON ETHICS: 1. Supererogation and Offense: A Conceptual Scheme for Ethics; 2. Contrary-to-Duty Imperatives and Deontic Logic; 3. On the Logic of "Intrinsically Better"; 4. Brentano's Theory of Correct and Incorrect Emotion; 5. Practical Reason and the Logic of Requirement; 6. The Intent to Deceive; 7. Two Dimensions of Rational Action; 8. Firth and the Ethics of Belief. XV,177 Seiten, gebunden (Philosophie und Realistische Phänomenologie. Studien der Internationalen Akademie für Philosophie im Fürstentum Liechtenstein; Vol. 12/Universitätsverlag Winter 2001)