Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 273 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780511554476
Content:
Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. Or at least when we invoke them, we make claims on one another; but where does their authority over us - or ours over one another - come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral philosophers: voluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and the appeal to autonomy. She traces their history, showing how each developed in response to the prior one and comparing their early versions with those on the contemporary philosophical scene. Kant's theory that normativity springs from our own autonomy emerges as a synthesis of the other three, and Korsgaard concludes with her own version of the Kantian account. Her discussion is followed by commentary from G. A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss, Thomas Nagel, and Bernard Williams, and a reply by Korsgaard.
Content:
Prologue. Excellence and obligation: a very concise history of western metaphysics 387 BC to 1887 AD / Christine Korsgaard -- The normative question / Christine Korsgaard -- Reflective endorsement / Christine Korsgaard -- The authority of reflection / Christine Korsgaard -- The origin of value and the scope of obligation / Christine Korsgaard -- Reason, humanity, and the moral law / G.A. Cohen -- Morality and identity / Raymound Geuss -- Universality and the reflective self / Thomas Nagel -- History, morality, and the test of reflection / Bernard Williams -- Reply / Christine Korsgaard
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ISBN 9780521559607
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521550598
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511554476
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Author information:
Geuss, Raymond 1946-
Author information:
Korsgaard, Christine M. 1952-
Author information:
O'Neill, Onora 1941-
Author information:
Williams, Bernard 1929-2003
