The Right and the Good

Sir David Ross (1877-1971) was Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, Honorary Fellow of Merton College, and Fellow of the British Academy.Philip Stratton-Lake is Lecturer in Philosophy at Reading University.

• Introduction and bibliography ; 1. The Meaning of 'Right' ; 2. What Makes Right Acts Right? ; Appendix 1 Rights ; Appendix 2 Punishment ; 3. The Meaning of 'Good' ; 4. The Nature of Goodness ; 5. What Things are Good? ; 6. Degrees of Goodness ; 7. Moral Goodness ; Index

Review from previous edition Ross's The Right and the Good remains a classic statement of the idea that moral philosophy should place respect for the variety of moral phenomena above the urge for systematic unification. We still have much to learn from it.