1st Edition

The Phenomenology of Moral Normativity

By William Smith Copyright 2012
216 Pages
by Routledge

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Why should I be moral? Philosophers have long been concerned with the legitimacy of morality’s claim on us—especially its ostensible aim to motivate certain actions of all persons unconditionally. This problem of moral normativity has received extensive treatment in analytic moral theory, but little attention has been paid to the potential contribution that phenomenology might make to this... Read more
Introduction: The Normativity of Morality  I. The First Person  1. Intersubjectivity and Korsgaard's Publicity of Reasons  2. Husserlian Moral Respect  II. The Second Person  3. Darwall's Second-Personal Revolution  4. The Face or the Second-Person Standpoint  III. Ontology, Selfhood, and Otherness  5. Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology  6. A Phenomenological Theory of Moral Normativity 

Biography

William H. Smith is Lecturer in Philosophy at Seattle University.