Morality and Metaphysics
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- Author: Charles Larmore, Brown University, Rhode Island
- Date Published: December 2023
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- isbn: 9781108459273
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In this book, Charles Larmore develops an account of morality, freedom, and reason that rejects the naturalistic metaphysics shaping much of modern thought. Reason, Larmore argues, is responsiveness to reasons, and reasons themselves are essentially normative in character, consisting in the way that physical and psychological facts - facts about the world of nature - count in favor of possibilities of thought and action that we can take up. Moral judgments are true or false in virtue of the moral reasons there are. We need therefore a more comprehensive metaphysics that recognizes a normative dimension to reality as well. Though taking its point of departure in the analysis of moral judgment, this book branches widely into related topics such as freedom and the causal order of the world, textual interpretation, the nature of the self, self-knowledge, and the concept of duties to ourselves.
Read more- Tackles fundamental questions in ethics, metaphysics, and the theory of reason
- Pursues an account of reason that is notably at odds with the leading theories today
- Shows how there can be such a thing as moral knowledge, drawing on the central features of everyday experience
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'In resolute opposition to popular expressivist and constitutivist views that have emerged from the traditions of Hume and Kant, Charles Larmore offers an account of morality that does not shy away from its metaphysical commitments. Starting from the contention that moral judgments purport to describe attitude-independent moral facts, which furnish objective reasons that can move us to act so far as we are rational, Larmore develops an ontologically robust account of these reasons as constituting a distinct dimension of reality, not reducible to the physical and psychological realms countenanced by contemporary naturalism. The fruit of long reflection, this erudite and passionately argued book merits the attention of anyone interested in these topics.' Stephen Engstrom, University of Pittsburgh
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- Date Published: December 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108459273
- length: 246 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.364kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. The Structure and Scope of the Moral Point of View:
1. Reflection and Morality
2. The Idea of Duties to Oneself
3. The Ethics of Reading
4. The Holes in Holism
Part II. Self and World:
5. Kant and the Meanings of Autonomy
6. Moral Philosophy and Metaphysical Evasion
7. The Conditions of Human Freedom
8. Self-Knowledge and Commitment.
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