Conceptual Structures of Moral Experience : A Challenge to Ethical Theory

ISBN-13: 9783639118018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 228 str.

Robert Conrad

Opis

This book argues that the substance of many of thetheoretical issues and debates of contemporaryWestern ethics have questionable relevance toward answering Socrates question, How shall welive? or as this book engages the question, By whatvalues shall we live? ,for the complex dynamism of the modern world. This problem arises as aconsequence of an overly abstract disengagement fromempirical considerations that is argued to be theresult of a Western conception of moral rationalityin which moral justification must meet the conditionsof objectivity and universalizability. The specificempirical considerations that are mostly absent inWestern moral inquiry are non-Western conceptions ofmorality and contemporary research in the CognitiveSciences and particularly empirical moral psychology.When many of the traditional abstract debates ofcontemporary Western ethics are analyzed in the lightof the foregoing empirical considerations, theintroduction of those empirical considerations has apowerful effect on the shape and substantive claimsat issue in those debates.

O autorze

Robert Conrad is currently working on a book entitled Problems
of Social Justice," based on the idea that we should focus some
of our philosophic efforts on what structural conditions would
enhance the prospect for a peaceful global environment. He lives
in Barcelona, Spain. Robert can be reached via email sent
http://www.myspace.com/roadrascal.