Commitment Value And Moral Realism

Author : Marcel S. Lieberman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521631114
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commitment, Value, and Moral Realism written by Marcel S. Lieberman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of commitment in moral and political philosophy, there has hitherto been little extended analysis of it. Marcel Lieberman examines the conditions under which commitment is possible, and offers at the same time an indirect argument for moral realism. He argues that realist evaluative beliefs are functionally required for commitment - especially regarding its role in self-understanding - and since it is only within a realist framework that such beliefs make sense, realism about values is a condition for the possibility of commitment itself. His ambitious study addresses questions that are of great interest to analytic philosophers but also makes many connections with continental philosophy and with folk psychology, sociology and cognitive science, and will be seen as a distinctive intervention in the debate about moral realism.

Author : Marcel Sima Lieberman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conditions and Possibility of Commitment: an Argument for Moral Realism written by Marcel Sima Lieberman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Enoch
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019161856X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Morality Seriously written by David Enoch and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism David Enoch develops, argues for, and defends a strongly realist and objectivist view of ethics and normativity more broadly. This view—according to which there are perfectly objective, universal, moral and other normative truths that are not in any way reducible to other, natural truths—is familiar, but this book is the first in-detail development of the positive motivations for the view into reasonably precise arguments. And when the book turns defensive—defending Robust Realism against traditional objections—it mobilizes the original positive arguments for the view to help with fending off the objections. The main underlying motivation for Robust Realism developed in the book is that no other metaethical view can vindicate our taking morality seriously. The positive arguments developed here—the argument from the deliberative indispensability of normative truths, and the argument from the moral implications of metaethical objectivity (or its absence)—are thus arguments for Robust Realism that are sensitive to the underlying, pre-theoretical motivations for the view.

Author : Kevin DeLapp
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144116118X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Realism written by Kevin DeLapp and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and original overview of contemporary debates in moral realism and relativism.

Author : Kevin DeLapp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441148280
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Realism written by Kevin DeLapp and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are moral values objective or are they relative to different cultural contexts and traditions? Do values have any place in a 'disenchanted' scientific conception of the world and, if so, how do human beings relate to such values culturally, psychologically, and epistemologically? This book examines contemporary responses to these questions. Moral Realism introduces students to contemporary debates concerning moral realism, including issues related to ethical naturalism, moral epistemology, moral motivation, cultural pluralism and moral disagreement. In the context of examining and connecting these different debates, the book presents its own unique form of moral realism according to which values may be belief-independent while also being characterized by an ontological pluralism that generates incommensurable moral disagreements and 'tragic' dilemmas. This idea serves as a guiding thread and also represents an attractive and neglected metaethical position in its own right. Specific attention is devoted to locating debates about moral realism in actual, embodied contexts, by looking to issues in experimental moral psychology, cross-cultiural anthropology and political science, permitting an accessible approach ideal for undergraduate students.

Author : Richard T. Hull
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051836721
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Quarter Century of Value Inquiry written by Richard T. Hull and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains all of the presidential addresses given before the American Society for Value Inquiry since its first meeting in 1970. Contributions are by Richard Brandt*, Virgil Aldrich*, John W. Davis*, the late Robert S. Hartman*, James B. Wilbur*, the late William H. Werkmeister, Robert E. Carter, the late William T. Blackstone, Gene James, Eva Hauel Cadwallader, Richard T. Hull, Norman Bowie*, Stephen White*, Burton Leiser+, Abraham Edel, Sidney Axinn, Robert Ginsberg, Patricia Werhane, Lisa M. Newton, Thomas Magnell, Sander Lee, John M. Abbarno, Ruth Miller Lucier, and Tom Regan*. Autobiographical sketches* by all of the living contributors and one recently deceased, biographical statements of the remainder, together with photographic portraits of all the contributors*, make this volume a unique record of value inquiry during the past quarter century.(*previously unpublished or unpublished in the present form / +substantial new material added)

Author : Jonathan A. Jacobs
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being True to the World written by Jonathan A. Jacobs and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with a critique of moral relativism and proceeds to develop a realist account of practical wisdom. The central claims are that there are objective moral facts and that knowledge of these facts can be action-guiding. The justification for these claims involves explaining the role of imagination in moral judgment and action and also showing how a realist approach to morality enables us to better account for immorality, revealing it to involve ignorance, error or falsification. The book concludes with an analysis of how the character of social relations is crucial to the formation of self-conceptions and the development of moral knowledge and moral imagination.

Author : David K. Clark
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739107669
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empirical Realism written by David K. Clark and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Only in the darkest of hours will a few seriously entertain the haunting possibility, almost unthinkable, that at the end of the day our best sense of the world, and of what is abidingly good, is an error." Does then the universe really have a guiding moral structure which is at once integral to the quality of human life? Empirical Realism is Clark's sustained, challenging and original argument for moral realism, one which not only provides the badly needed account of normativity--of what it is exactly that constitutes genuine moral obligation--but which also anchors that account within a comprehensive philosophical theory. The author's position, rigorously developed and defended, provides a trek through issues central to classical and contemporary philosophy. Masterfully navigating his readers through the global realism/antirealism debate in Parts I and II, his erudition--sensitive yet unflinching--knows no shortcuts. David Clark's first book goes on to show how intrinsic value, a value which is inherent and not conferred, is the independently real feature which both generates obligation and is the ground by which it is to be honored. This three-Part text has direct implications for metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, value theory, environmental ethics, and moral theory generally.

Author : Daniel N. Robinson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825318
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Praise and Blame written by Daniel N. Robinson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should a prize be awarded after a horse race? Should it go to the best rider, the best person, or the one who finishes first? To what extent are bystanders blameworthy when they do nothing to prevent harm? Are there any objective standards of moral responsibility with which to address such perennial questions? In this fluidly written and lively book, Daniel Robinson takes on the prodigious task of setting forth the contours of praise and blame. He does so by mounting an important and provocative new defense of a radical theory of moral realism and offering a critical appraisal of prevailing alternatives such as determinism and behaviorism and of their conceptual shortcomings. The version of moral realism that arises from Robinson's penetrating inquiry--an inquiry steeped in Aristotelian ethics but deeply informed by modern scientific knowledge of human cognition--is independent of cognition and emotion. At the same time, Robinson carefully explores how such human attributes succeed or fail in comprehending real moral properties. Through brilliant analyses of constitutional and moral luck, of biosocial and genetic versions of psychological determinism, and of relativistic-anthropological accounts of variations in moral precepts, he concludes that none of these conceptions accounts either for the nature of moral properties or the basis upon which they could be known. Ultimately, the theory that Robinson develops preserves moral properties even while acknowledging the conditions that undermine the powers of human will.

Author : Robert Stern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139505017
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Moral Obligation written by Robert Stern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves 'author' or lay down moral norms and values for ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book, Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this 'argument from autonomy', and claims that Kant never subscribed to it. Rather, it is not value realism but the apparent obligatoriness of morality that really poses a challenge to our autonomy: how can this be accounted for without taking away our freedom? The debate the book focuses on therefore concerns whether this obligatoriness should be located in ourselves (Kant), in others (Hegel) or in God (Kierkegaard). Stern traces the historical dialectic that drove the development of these respective theories, and clearly and sympathetically considers their merits and disadvantages; he concludes by arguing that the choice between them remains open.