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Normative Ethics is an excellent book for those interested in a contemporary introduction to ethical theory, It covers the main and rival approaches to moral theory based on consent, consequences, and harm, It's well worth a read if you're looking for a solid, critical overview of normative ethics, If you're interested in more advanced topics in moral philosophy consider checking out Kagan's The Limits of Moralitywhere he challenges key assumptions of normative ethics, Providing a thorough introduction to current philosophical views on morality, Normative Ethics examines an acts rightness or wrongness in terms of such factors as consequences, harm, and consent.
Shelly Kagan offers a division between moral factors and theoretical foundations that reflects the actual working practices of contemporary moral philosophers, Intended for upperlevel or graduate students of philosophy, this book should also appeal to the general reader looking for a clearly written overview of the basic principles of moral philosophy.
Providing a thorough introduction to current philosophical views on morality, Normative Ethics examines an acts rightness or wrongness in light of such factors as consequences, harm, and consent.
Shelly Kagan offers  a division between moral factors and theoretical foundations that reflects the actual working practices of contemporary  moral philosophers, The first half of the book presents a systematic survey of the basic normative factors, focusing on controversial questions concerning the precise content of each factor, its scope and significance, and its relationship to other factors.
The second half of the book then examines the competing

theories about the foundations of normative ethics, theories that attempt to explain why the basic normative factors have the moral significance that they do.
Intended for upperlevel or graduate students of philosophy, this book should also appeal to the general reader looking for a clearly written overview of the basic principles of moral philosophy.
  This books was a great introduction to Normative Ethics, It allowed the reader to explore possibilities before investigating Normative Theories, This is a very clearly written, informative look at the most significant moral theories, Kagan approaches his dissection and taxonomy of moral theories by teasing out many of the differences both between and within theories, He distinguishes many different aspects of moral theories and explains how they interact for instance, how the fundamental justification of a theory may support different kinds of relevant normative factors.
Although he does not go into great detail on the merits and demerits of any single theory, he suggests what some of the pros and cons may be, and leaves it up to the reader to find out more.
This is a reasonable approach given the breadth of theories that Kagan reviews here,

Overall, a very useful book for anyone interested in normative ethics, Excellent. This is the best introduction to contemporary normative ethics I've come across, I'd highly recommend it for any introduction to ethics class and anyone interested in this subject, Although certainly interesting, I rather dislike the way this book is setup, The chapters are just continuous lines of text where Kagan often takes a lot of words to explain the theory, I think adding more spacing and a few diagrams would be an improvement,

Nevertheless, Kagan does a good job at setting out the basics one needs to know about normative ethics, After ploughing your way through the book, you'll have a sense of the most important theories within the subject, I would recommend taking a look at the suggested readings at the end of the book after reading each chapter, to also get a grasp of who defended the theories in question.
Shelly Kagan is Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale, After receiving his B. A. from Wesleyan University in, and his Ph, D. from Princeton University in, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois at Chicago before coming to Yale in, He is the author of the textbook Normative Ethics, which systematically reviews alternative positions concerning the basic rules of morality and their possible foundations, and The Limits of Morality, which challenges two of the most widely shared beliefs about the requirements of morality.
He is currently at work on The Geometry of Desert, .