Morality in a Realistic Spirit
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-17728-1 (ISBN)
This unique collection of essays has two main purposes. The first is to honour the pioneering work of Cora Diamond, one of the most important living moral philosophers and certainly the most important working in the tradition inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The second is to develop and deepen a picture of moral philosophy by carrying out new work in what Diamond has called the realistic spirit.
The contributors in this book advance a first-order moral attitude that pays close attention to actual moral life and experience. Their essays, inspired by Diamond’s work, take up pressing challenges in Anglo-American moral philosophy, including Diamond’s defence of the concept ‘human being’ in ethics, her defence of literature as a source of moral thought that does not require external sanction from philosophy, her challenge to the standard ‘fact/value’ dichotomy, and her exploration of non-argumentative forms of legitimate moral persuasion. There are also essays that apply this framework to new issues such as the nature of love, the connections of ethics to theology, and the implications of Wittgenstein’s thought for political philosophy.
Finally, the book features a new paper by Diamond in which she contests deep-rooted philosophical assumptions about language that severely limit what philosophers see as the possibilities in ethics. Morality in a Realistic Spirit offers a tribute to a great moral philosopher in the best way possible—by taking up the living ideas in her work and taking them in original and interesting directions.
Craig Taylor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Flinders University. He is the author of Moralism: A Study of a Vice (2012) and Sympathy: A Philosophical Analysis (2002); a co-editor of Hume and The Enlightenment (2011) and A Sense for Humanity: the Ethical Thought of Raimond Gaita (2014). Andrew Gleeson has taught philosophy at the Australian Catholic University, the University of Adelaide, and the Flinders University of South Australia. He works mainly in ethics and philosophy of religion. His book A Frightening Love: Recasting the Problem of Evil was published in 2012.
Introduction
Andrew Gleeson and Craig Taylor
Ethics and Experience
Cora Diamond
Cora Diamond and the Uselessness of Argument: Distances in Metaphysics and Ethics
Reshef Agam-Segal
The Importance of Being Fully Human: Transformation, Contemplation and Ethics
Sarah Bachelard
How to be somebody else: imaginative identification in ethics and literature
Sophie Chappell
Different themes of love
Christopher Cordner
A Brilliant Perspective: Diamondian Ethics
Alice Crary
The Riddling God
Andrew Gleeson
Shakespeare, Value and Diamond
Simon Haines
The asymmetry of truth and the logical role of thinking guides in ethics
Oskari Kuusela
Difficulties of Reality, Skepticism and Moral Community: Remarks After Diamond on Cavell
David Macarthur
Comparison or Seeing-As? The Holocaust and Factory Farming
Talia Morag
Two conceptions of "community": as defined by what it is not, or as defined by what it is
Rupert Read
Thinking with Animals
Duncan Richter
Diamond on Realism in Moral Philosophy
Craig Taylor
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.10.2021 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 408 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-17728-4 / 1032177284 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-17728-1 / 9781032177281 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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