The Ideal of a Rational Morality: Philosophical Compositions

ISBN-13: 9780198250210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 360 str.

Marcus George Singer; Marcus G. Singer

Opis

The Ideal of a Rational Morality collects the most important essays by the distinguished moral philosopher Marcus G. Singer. Its guiding theme is the concept of a morality based in reason, which is presupposed in ordinary moral contexts and provides an ideal for improving ordinary morality and correcting moral judgements. Singer makes compelling claims that certain fundamental presuppositions are inescapable in moral thought, that fundamental moral principles can be proved, and that the concepts of truth and 'common sense' are essential to ethics.

Recenzje

it is well worth having a concentrated diet of Singer before us. Professor Singer is fond of Iris Murdoch's adage that doing philosophy "is to explore one's own temperament, and yet at the same time attempt to discover the truth". In this case both the temperament and the truths discovered will be found rewarding. . . . the philosophy is replete with literary and other allusions, but is also rigorous. And this means that the judgments it comes up with are never simplistic, but are grounded in some breadth or depth of experience, what some might characterize as common sense.