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The autonomy of morality / Charles Larmore.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larmore, Charles E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Reasoning.
- Physical Description:
- x, 277 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- In The Autonomy of Morality, Charles Larmore challenges two ideas that have shaped the modern mind. The world, he argues, is not a realm of value-neutral fact, nor does human freedom consist in imposing principles of our own devising on an alien reality. Rather, reason consists in being responsive to reasons for thought and action that arise from the world itself. Larmore shows that the moral good has an authority that speaks for itself. Only in this light does the true basis of a liberal political order come into view, as well as the role of unexpected goods in the makeup of a life lived well.
- Contents:
- History and truth
- Back to Kant? No way
- Attending to reasons
- John Rawls and moral philosophy
- The autonomy of morality
- The moral basis of political liberalism
- The meanings of political freedom
- Public reason
- Nietzsche and the will to truth
- The idea of a life plan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521889131
- 0521889138
- 9780521717823
- 0521717825
- OCLC:
- 181368738
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- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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