The limits of moral authority / Dale Dorsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorsey, Dale, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authority.

Ethics.

Morality.

Moral Education.

Local Subjects:

Morality.

Moral Education.

Physical Description:

xi, 233 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Dale Dorsey considers one of the most fundamental questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent do the demands of morality have normative authority over us and our lives? Must we conform to moral requirements? Most who have addressed this question have treated the normative significance of morality as simply a fact to be explained. But Dorsey argues that this traditional assumption is misguided. According to Dorsey, not only are we not required to conform to moral demands, moral behavior can be normatively impermissible-quite literally, wrong. This view is significant not only for understanding the content and force of the moral point of view, but also for understanding the basic elements of how one ought to live. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Concept of Normative Authority 8

2 A Priori Rationalism 40

3 Supremacy and Impartiality 71

4 Supremacy and the Supererogatory 108

5 Defending and Rejecting Permission, Part 1: Defending 137

6 Defending and Rejecting Permission, Part 2: Rejecting 172.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.

ISBN:

9780198728900

0198728905

OCLC:

923850370