1st Edition

Comparative Metaethics Neglected Perspectives on the Foundations of Morality

Edited By Colin Marshall Copyright 2020
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This collection of original essays explores metaethical views from outside the mainstream European tradition. The guiding motivation is that important discussions about the ultimate nature of morality can be found far beyond ancient Greece and modern Europe. The volume’s aim is to show how rich the possibilities are for comparative metaethics, and how much these comparisons offer challenges and... Read more

Introduction

Colin Marshall

Part 1: Moral Metaphysics

1. The Metaethics of Maat

Kevin DeLapp

2. The Groundedness of Normativity or Indigenous Normativity through the Land

Brian Yazzie Burkhart

3. The Nature of Mexica Ethics

James Maffie

4. Etemeyaske Vpokat (Living Together Peacefully): How the Muscogee Concept of Harmony Can Provide a Structure to Morality

Joseph Len Miller

5. Species and the Good in Anne Conway’s Metaethics

John Grey

6. The Art of Convention: An Aesthetic Defense of Confucian Ritual

Irene Liu

7. Matilal’s Metaethics

Nicolas Bommarito and Alex King

Part 2: Moral Experience

8. Goblet Words and Moral Knack: Non-Cognitivist Moral Realism in the Zhuangzi?

Christopher Kirby

9. Constructing Morality with Mengzi: Three Lessons on the Metaethics of Moral Progress

Jing Hu and Seth Robertson

10. Nishida Kitarō’s Kōiteki Chokkan: Active Intuition and Contemporary Metaethics

Laura Specker Sullivan

11. Augusto Salazar Bondy’s Philosophy of Value

Clark Donley

12. Sontag on Impertinent Sympathy and Photographs of Evil

Sean T. Murphy

Biography

Colin Marshall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, USA. His research focuses on the intersection of historical and contemporary philosophy of mind and metaethics. He is the author of Compassionate Moral Realism (2018).