Offers answers to both normative and metaethical questions in a way that shows the interconnection of both types of questions, and also shows how a theory of reasons can be developed by moving back and forth between the two types of questions.
Offers answers to both normative and metaethical questions in a way that shows the interconnection of both types of questions, and also shows how a th...
This book is about fundamental questions in normative ethics. It begins with the idea that we often respond to ethical theories according to how principled or pragmatic they are. It clarifies this contrast and then uses it to shed light on old debates in ethics, such as debates about the rival merits of consequentialist and deontological views. Using the idea that principled views seem most appealing in dilemmas of acquiescence, it goes on to develop a novel theory of pattern-based reasons. These are reasons to play one's part in some larger pattern of action because of the goodness or...
This book is about fundamental questions in normative ethics. It begins with the idea that we often respond to ethical theories according to how pr...
As concerns about violence, war, terrorism, and the definition of life have garnered attention in philosophy, the concept of vulnerability has become a shared reference point in these discussions. Vulnerability is emphasized not just because it is a fundamental part of the human condition, but also because it is regarded as having significant ethical import. Yet, very little attention is paid to how we think, talk, and feel about vulnerability and even less theoretical effort has been devoted to elaborating a genuine concept of vulnerability. The main problem with common presumptions about...
As concerns about violence, war, terrorism, and the definition of life have garnered attention in philosophy, the concept of vulnerability has beco...
The papers collected in this volume explore the practice of forgiveness and its normative constraints. Topics include the ancient Chinese and the Christian traditions of forgiveness, the impact of forgiveness on the moral dignity and self-respect of the victim, self-forgiveness, the narrative of forgiveness, and more.
The papers collected in this volume explore the practice of forgiveness and its normative constraints. Topics include the ancient Chinese and the Chri...
In this study, Olberding proposes a new theoretical model for reading the Analects. Her thesis is that the moral sensibility of the text derives from an effort to conceptually capture and articulate the features seen in exemplars, exemplars that are identified and admired pre-theoretically and thus prior to any conceptual criteria for virtue.
In this study, Olberding proposes a new theoretical model for reading the Analects. Her thesis is that the moral sensibility of the text derives from ...
This book aims to elaborate a phenomenological description of moral experience as summarised in the view that moral experience functions as a starting-point to every theoretical description of morality and as a first principle on the basis of which we can draw criteria in order to evaluate moral actions and moral agents. Apart from relying upon phenomenological insights, Kontos clarifies his claim using a text-centered reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. In the end, Kontos finds that moral experience is founded on a phronetic perception capable of recognizing schemata that synthesize a...
This book aims to elaborate a phenomenological description of moral experience as summarised in the view that moral experience functions as a starting...
Thomas Aquinas devoted a substantial proportion of his greatest works to the virtues. Yet, despite the availability of these texts (and centuries of commentary), Aquinas's virtue ethics remains mysterious, leaving readers with many unanswered questions. In this book, Pinsent argues that the key to understanding Aquinas's approach is to be found in an association between: a) attributes he appends to the virtues, and b) interpersonal capacities investigated by the science of social cognition, especially in the context of autistic spectrum disorder. The book uses this research to argue that...
Thomas Aquinas devoted a substantial proportion of his greatest works to the virtues. Yet, despite the availability of these texts (and centuries of c...
In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant's body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a Kantian legacy) leads one to put community reception ahead of individual reception in the order of aesthetic relations. A core premise of the book is that neo-pragmatism draws attention to an otherwise overlooked aspect of Kant's "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment," and this is the conception of community which it sets forth.
While offering an interpretation of Kant's aesthetic theory, the book focuses on the implications of Kant's third...
In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant's body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a...
In this text, Ellis argues that moral and political objectives are not independent of one other, and so must be pursued in tandem. Ellis elaborates on the theory of social humanism and the need to reconsider the metaphysical foundations of morals.
In this text, Ellis argues that moral and political objectives are not independent of one other, and so must be pursued in tandem. Ellis elaborates on...
In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable. In so doing, the book marks a radical departure from both the new atheism and the mainstream of modern ethical philosophy. While in synch with their underlying aim of grounding human existence in a naturalistic metaphysics, the book takes both to task for maintaining a complacent embrace of morality.
In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable. In so doing, the book marks a radical d...
