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I've never studied any branch of ethics, maybe stumbling across something on Wikipedia now and then. Would I be out of my depth reading a metaethics textbook without having read books about the other branches of ethics? It also looks like logic must play a significant role in metaethics given its purpose, so in that regard I should say that I'm going through Lepore's Meaning and Argument right now.

Oxford's Rhetoric could be helpful in this area.

4Gram_Stone11y

I found my own answer in the comments of the course recommendations for friendliness thread. Luke says: [...] On normative ethics, Luke says elsewhere: [...] From what I see, he seems to attribute a similarly low significance to most of contemporary normative ethics. Also, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has been suggested twice, in case I do need to know anything in particular about normative ethics. I'll keep that in mind. For posterity, as far as I can tell, the most popular undergraduate text on normative ethics is Rachels' The Elements of Moral Philosophy. The 7th edition has good reviews on Amazon. Apparently the 8th edition is too new to have reviews.

7TheAncientGeek11y

You could dip a toe on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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