Peter Railton

Facts, Values, and Norms

Essays Toward a Morality of Consequence
Herausgeber: Dancy, Jonathan; Sosa, Ernest

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We struggle daily with the notions of why we do what we do and of assigning values to our actions, although it seems possible through experience to gain knowledge and understanding of such matters. In contrast to the world of facts, values and morality seem insecure, easily influenced by illusion or ideology. How can objectivity and accuracy be applied to values and morality? Peter Railton's study reveals how a naturalistically informed view of the world might incorporate objective values and moral knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 663g
• ISBN-13: 9780521426930
• ISBN-10: 0521426936
• Artikelnr.: 21473027

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Realism about Value and Morality: 1. Moral realism
2. Facts and values
3. Noncognitivism about rationality
4. Aesthetic value, moral value, and the ambitions of naturalism
5. Red, bitter, good
Part II. Normative Moral Theory: 6. Alienation, consequentialism, and the demands of morality
7. Locke, stock, and peril
8. How thinking about character and utilitarianism might lead to rethinking the character of utilitarianism
9. Pluralism, dilemma, and the expression of moral conflict
Part III. The Authority of Ethics and Values - The Problem of Normativity: 10. On the hypothetical and non-hypothetical in reasoning about thought and action
11. Normative force and normative freedom
12. Morality, ideology, and reflection
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