216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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What is the most distinctive feature of human nature? Does human nature play any significant role in explaining ethical objectivity? How do we arrive at moral judgments? What is the relationship between moral judgments and moral motivation? In answering these questions, this book defends a naturalist, realist and internalist theory of the foundations of ethics. This theory, grounded on a... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Sympathy, humanity and moral sentiment; Humanity, nature, and the unity of the virtues; Experience, sensibility, and moral objectivity; Reason, morality, and moral epistemology; Motivation, judgement, and Mencian internalism; Appendix: Aristotle on actuality and potentiality; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Xiusheng Liu
'... Liu's book is a high-quality, analytic piece in comparative studies and ethics. It is clear, well argued, and original... It should be warmly welcomed and well received by both specialists and advanced students in comparative studies or ethics.' Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy
