Moral sentimentalism / Michael Slote.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slote, Michael, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Caring.

Empathy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 163 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There has recently been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in meta-ethical questions about the meaning of moral terms or in normative issues about benevolence and/or caring and their place in morality. In Moral Sentimentalism Michael Slote attempts to deal with both sorts of issues and to do so, primarily, in terms of the notion or phenomenon of empathy. Hume sought to do something like this over two centuries ago, though he didn't have the term ""empathy"" and used ""sympathy"" instead. Slote therefore attempts to give moral

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. Empathy: Cement of the Moral Universe; 2. Moral Approval and Disapproval; 3. Empathy in Moral Judgment; 4. A New Kind of Reference-Fixing; 5. How to Derive "Ought" from "Is"; 6. The Use of Moral Judgments; 7. Between Motive and Morality; 8. Paternalism and Patriarchy; 9. Justice; 10. Empathy, Objectivity, and Rationality; Conclusion; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-988933-3

0-19-997570-1

1-282-49068-0

9786612490682

0-19-974185-9

OCLC:

502097520