Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered: Phenomenological Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780415896740 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 210 str.

Pavlos Kontos

Opis

This book aims to elaborate a phenomenological description of moral experience as summarised in the view that moral experience functions as a starting-point to every theoretical description of morality and as a first principle on the basis of which we can draw criteria in order to evaluate moral actions and moral agents. Apart from relying upon phenomenological insights, Kontos clarifies his claim using a text-centered reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. In the end, Kontos finds that moral experience is founded on a phronetic perception capable of recognizing schemata that synthesize a world susceptible of being invested with moral qualities; these same schemata, qua ontological categories of moral action, are what practical theory appeals to in its attempt to articulate or evaluate core principles of normativity.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Aristotle and Kant: Actions within the Moral World  1: Action, πρακτόν and Visibility  2: Phronetic Perception  3: Aristotelian Constructivism  4: Kant: Action, the Good and their Common Categories  Part 2: Phenomenological Voices and their Dissonances  5: Towards a Phenomenological Moral Realism  6: Heidegger on Aristotle’s and Kant’s Ethics  7: Gadamer and Practical Rationality  8: Arendt on Action and Performances  Conclusion: The Many Faces of Moral Realism　

O autorze

Pavlos Kontos is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Patras University, Greece. He is the author of L’action morale chez Aristote (Presses Universitaires de France, 2002) and D’une phénoménologie de la perception chez Heidegger (Kluwer, 1996) and co-editor of Kant: Making Reason Intuitive (Palgrave, 2006) and Gadamer et les Grecs (Vrin, 2005).