The Phenomenology of Moral Normativity

ISBN-13: 9780415890687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 232 str.

William H. Smith

Opis

Why should I be moral? Philosophers have long been concerned with the legitimacy of morality's claim on us--especially its ostensible aim to motivate certain actions of all persons unconditionally. This problem of moral normativity has received extensive treatment in analytic moral theory, but little attention has been paid to the potential contribution that phenomenology might make to this central debate in metaethics. In The Phenomenology of Moral Normativity, William H. Smith takes up the question of morality's legitimacy anew, drawing contemporary moral philosophers into conversation with the phenomenological philosophy of Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Problem of Moral Normativity  Part 1: The First-Person  1. Moral Realism and Korsgaard’s Dilemma  2. Respect and Drummond’s Husserlian Metaethics  Part 2: The Second-Person  3. Dignity and Darwall’s Second-Person Standpoint  4. Authority and Levinas’s Face-to-Face  Part 3: Subjectivity and Responsibility  5. Nihilism and Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology  6. A Phenomenological Theory of Moral Normativity

 

O autorze

William H. Smith is Lecturer in Philosophy at Seattle University.