Obligation and the Fact of Sense

ISBN-13: 9781474442732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 232 str.

Bryan Lueck

Spis treści

Introduction: Ethics in the Sheep’s Shop; 1. Philosophical Reflection on Obligation; 2. Elements of a General Conception of Obligation; Chapter One: Four Early Modern Accounts of Obligation; 1. Voluntarism; 2. Rationalism; 3. Egoism; 4. Sentimentalism; Chapter Two: The Copernican Revolution in Ethics; 1. Reflection as the Source of the Problem of Normativity; 2. Kant and the Copernican Revolution in Ethics; 3. The Argument of the Collins Lectures; 4. The Argument of the Groundwork; 5. The Fact of Reason; Chapter Three: Perceptual and Expressive Sense; 1. Normativity in Perceptual Experience; 2. Two Objections to the Perception-Based Account; 3. Saussurian Linguistics; 4. Merleau-Ponty’s Reinterpretation of Saussure; 5. The Dynamic of Communication; 6. Obligation and the Claim of the Other; Chapter Four: Noise; 1. Noise as Originary; 2. Noise and Moral Sense; 3. Exposure to Noise as the Fact of Sense; 4. Harlequin Emperor of the Moon; 5. The Devil or the Good Lord; Chapter Five: Abandonment and the Moral Law; 1. Sense as Shared; 2. Abandonment and Obligation; 3. Dignity; Chapter Six: Indifference; 1. Obligation as Overriding; 2. The Givenness of Facts; 3. Subjunctive Indeterminacy; 4. The Law of Expansion; Chapter Seven: Conclusion; 1. Is This Still Obligation?; 2. A Deflationary Account; Notes; Bibliography.