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Pragmatist Ethics - James Jakób Liszka

Pragmatist Ethics

A Problem-Based Approach to What Matters
Buch | Hardcover
204 Seiten
2021
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
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Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.
Grounded in American pragmatism, Pragmatist Ethics proposes a rethinking of ethics. Rather than looking to the good—a concept for which consensus is difficult to achieve—pragmatists instead advocate for tending to the problems of the day. James Jakób Liszka examines how daily practices and institutions are originally conceived and then evolve to solve certain problems, and that their failure to do so is the source of most problems. Liszka argues that the ethical goal, therefore, is to improve upon these practices and that the sort of practical reasoning that characterizes practices can be enhanced by a more scientific, empirical approach. But how do we know when changes to practices and institutions are progressive? Problems will plague the best of communities; the better community is the one that succeeds best at solving its problems. Pragmatist Ethics examines various accounts of improvement and progress, concluding that the problem-solving effectiveness of communities is the key to progressive changes.

James Jakób Liszka is Senior Scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life and Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He is the author of Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences; Moral Competence: An Integrated Approach to the Study of Ethics (second edition); A General Introduction to the Semeiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce; and The Semiotic of Myth: A Critical Study of the Symbol (Advances in Semiotics).

Acknowledgments
Notes on In-Text Citations

Introduction

1. What's the Good of Goodness?
Plato's Doubts
James's Doubts
The Tragic Sense of Life
Problem-Based Ethics

2. Pragmatism and the Roots of Problem-Based Ethics
The Pragmatic Maxim: Theory to Practice
Truth and Goodness Reconceived
Communities of Inquiry
Democracy as a Community of Inquiry
Scientific Ethics and Experiments of Living
Meliorism: Convergence, Growth, Improvement, Progress

3. Practical Life
Practices
Practices as Solutions to Problems
What Is a Problem?
The Normative Character of Practices
The Normative Governance of Practices

4. Practical Reasoning
The Desire-Belief Model of Moral Motivation
From Practical Reasoning to Practical Knowledge
Problems as Moral Guidance

5. Normative Science
The General and the Particular in Practical Knowledge
Know-How and Know-That
Practical Hypotheses
Normative Naturalism
The Empirical Warrant for Prudential Norms
The Empirical Warrant for Good Ends and Righteous Means

6. Communities of Inquiry
The Ends and Means of Inquiry
The Problem of Epistemarchy
Problems and the Governance of Practices

7. Change for the Better
Progress as Preference for Ways of Life
The Cumulative Theory of Progress
Progress as a Function of Problem-Solving Effectiveness
Moral Progress
Has There Been Progress?
Generalizing Problem-Solving Effectiveness

Conclusion

References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10 1-4384-8587-5 / 1438485875
ISBN-13 978-1-4384-8587-4 / 9781438485874
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