Dallas Willard

The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Porter, Steven L.; Ten Elshof, Gregg A.; Preston, Aaron

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the possibility of moral knowledge, such that knowledge of the moral life and of its conduct is no longer routinely available from the social institutions long thought to be responsible for it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429958878
• Artikelnr.: 56841354

Autorenporträt

Dallas Willard (1935-2013) was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California from 1965 to 2012. A specialist in the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, his publications include Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge: a Study in Husserl's Philosophy as well as numerous articles on Husserl as well as in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion. He also published the first English translations of Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic, his Early Writings in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, and a number of shorter pieces by Husserl and other early phenomenologists.

Steven L. Porter is Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Biola University. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from USC in 2003 under the direction of Dallas Willard. His previous publications include Restoring the Foundations of Epistemic Justification: A Direct Realist and Conceptualist Theory of Foundationalism and Neuroscience and the Soul: The Human Person in Philosophy, Science, and Theology.

Aaron Preston is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Valparaiso University. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from USC in 2002 under the direction of Dallas Willard. His previous publications include Analytic Philosophy: the History of an Illusion, and Analytic Philosophy: an Interpretive History.

Gregg A. Ten Elshof is Professor of Philosophy at Biola University. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from USC in 2000 under the direction of Dallas Willard. His previous publications include Introspection Vindicated, I Told Me So, and Confucius for Christians

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, by Scott Soames
Editors' Introduction
Preface
1. Moral Knowledge Disappears
2. A "Science of Ethics"?
3. G. E. Moore: From Science of Ethics to Nihilism
4. Emotivism: The Erasure of Moral Knowledge
5. A Rational Form of Noncognitivism? "Rational Necessity" Relocated
6. A Consensus of Rational People: Social Constructionism in Rawls
7. Practices, Traditions and Narratives: Social Constructionism in
MacIntyre
8. Prospects for a Return of Moral Knowledge