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Moral Thought Outside Moral Theory book cover

1st Edition

Moral Thought Outside Moral Theory

By Craig Taylor Copyright 2024
154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book argues there can be no theory of ethics and that any attempt at such a theory ends up distorting the moral phenomena that it is supposed to explain. It presents clear examples of moral thought outside moral theorising through literature and Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. The book’s precise target is moral theory understood as a theory of right action . The author begins by arguing... Read more

Introduction

1. Moral Thought and Moral Judgement

2. Moral Particularity

3. Moral Concepts and the Limits of Moral Theory

4. Conceptions of Value

5. Imagination and Truth in Moral Thought

6. Impartial versus Public Reasons

7. A Moral Life

Biography

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), A Sense for Humanity: The Ethical Thought of Raimond Gaita (2014) and Morality in a Realistic Spirit: Essays for Cora Diamond (2020).

"This is a tremendously interesting, bold, ambitious, and original contribution to contemporary ethics."

Sophie Grace Chappell, Open University, UK

"This wonderful book is always in touch with the real complexities of moral life. The personal character of moral responsiveness is brought out sharply by Taylor in insightful case studies of literary works. The book is a truly important contribution to philosophical ethics: to what it can be."

Cora Diamond, University of Virginia, USA

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