Explaining Right and Wrong: A New Moral Pluralism and Its Implications

ISBN-13: 9781138307353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 200 str.

UK) Benjamin (University of St Andrews Sachs

Opis

This book aims to shake the foundations of contemporary ethics by showing that moral philosophers have been deploying a mistaken methodology in their efforts to figure out the truth about what we morally ought to do. Sachs argues that moral theorizing makes sense only if it is conceived of as an explanatory project and carried out accordingly.

Recenzje

"This book contains several original arguments and thought-provoking ideas. The primary argument about moral theorizing as an explanatory endeavour binds moral theory, normative ethics, and applied ethics into a unique argumentative field that paves the way for many important, distinct, and novel insights that the author discusses. All this opens new ground for future debates in the field." --Vojko Strahovnik, University of Ljubljana

O autorze

Benjamin Sachs is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. He has written on topics in normative ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, animal ethics, and coercion. He has papers in journals including Philosophical Studies and The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.