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Ethics Done Right
Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory
Ethics Done Right examines how practical reasoning can be put into
the service of ethical and moral theory. Elijah Millgram shows that the
key to thinking about ethics is to understand more generally how to
make decisions. The papers in this volume support a methodological
approach and trace the connections between two kinds of theory in
utilitarianism, in Kantian ethics, in virtue ethics, in Hume’s moral
philosophy, and in moral particularism. Unlike other studies of ethics,
Ethics Done Right does not advocate a particular moral theory. Rather,
it offers a tool that enables one to decide for oneself.
Elijah Millgram is E. E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy at the Uni-
versity of Utah. He is the author of Practical Induction and the editor
of Varieties of Practical written on moral philosophy,
coherence theory, and late British Empiricism. He has been a Fellow
of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and of
the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Ethics Done Right
Practical Reasoning as a Foundation
for Moral Theory
ELIJAH MILLGRAM
University of Utah
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