Explorations in Ethics

David Kaspar teaches philosophy at St. John's University, New York, USA

1. Introduction.- 2. The Euthyphro Problem Revisited.- 3.  Realism, Objectivity, and Evaluation.- 4. The Modal Conception of Ideal Rational Agents: Objectively Ideal Not Merely Subjectively Ideal, Advisors Not Exemplars, Agentially Concerned Not Agentially Indifferent, Social Not Solitary, Self-and-Other-Regarding Not Wholly Self-Regarding.- 5. To Boldly Go Where No Man, or Woman, has Gone Before!.- 6. Well-Being as Harmony.- 7.  On Moral Architecture.- 8. The Central Difficulty of the Moral Life.- 9. Desert-Sensitivity and Moral Evaluation.- 10. Interpersonal Invisibility and the Recognition of Other Persons.- 11. Censure, Sanction, and the Moral Psychology of Resentment and Punitiveness.- 12. A Natural Law Approach to Biomedical Ethics.- 13. The Corruptions of Music.