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Through the works of key figures in ethics since modernity this book charts a shift from dominant fixated, objective moral systems and the dependence on moral authorities such as God, nature and state to universal, formal, fallible, individualistic and/or vulnerable moral systems that ensue from the modern subject's exercise of reason and freedom.                     

DOI: 10.1057/9781137472427

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Introduction

Imafidon Elvis

1-10

From chaos to order

Offor Francis

11-23

Kant's contribution to moral evolution

Osei Joseph

24-42

The moral agent

Echekwube Anthony O.

43-53

Reflections on Kierkegaard's inwardness and ethics of subjectivity

Agidigbi Blessing O.

54-70

Nietzsche's sovereign individual and the ethics of subjectivity

Paphitis Sharli

71-102

A case for Foucault's reversal of opinion on the autonomy of the subject

Robinson Bob

103-125

The ethics and politics of self-creation in Foucault

Hofmeyr Benda

126-143

Jacques Derrida on the ethics of hospitality

Kakoliris Gerasimos

144-156

Karl Popper's contribution to postmodernist ethics

Osei Joseph

157-188

Open standard, open judgment and value revision in Karl Popper's moral philosophy

Ikhane Peter A.

189-200

Navigating Feyerabend's moral philosophy from boundaries without values to values without boundaries

Ukpokolo Isaac E.

201-213

Outlines of Jacques Lacan's ethics of subjectivity

Sadler Gregory B.

214-239

Ayn Rand's ethics of rational selfishness

Ighoroje Precious O.

240-254

Habermas' ethics of intersubjectivity

Imafidon Elvis

255-279

Levinas meets the postcolonial

280-295

Rorty's contribution to postmodern ethics

Udefi Amaechi

296-309

Human conversation and the evolution of ethics in Kitcher's pragmatic naturalism

310-325