Creating a shared morality : the feasibility of ethical constructivism / by Heather Salazar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salazar, Heather, author.

Contributor:

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Studies in moral philosophy (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 15.

Studies in moral philosophy, 2211-2014 ; volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Constructivism (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 196 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1 Arguments for Ethical Constructivism

Chapter 1 Ethical Constructivism and Its Origins

1 Supernaturalist and Realist Externalism

2 Subjectivist and Contractarian Internalism

3 Kantian Transcendentalism and Procedural Morality

4 Korsgaard's Neo-Kantian Thoroughgoing Constructivism

5 Saving Constructivism from Inadequacies: Enlightenism

Chapter 2 Public Reasons as the Basis of Objective Morality

1 Procedural Publicity

2 Reasons as the Basis for Morality

3 Korsgaard's Argument for the Constructive Publicity of Reasons

4 Two Strategies: Inductive and Deductive

Chapter 3 Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument: The Inductive Strategy

1 The Shareablity of Meanings and Reasons

2 Two Interpretations of Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument

3 Reasons to Reject the Inductive Strategy

4 Important Differences between the Meanings and Reasons

Chapter 4 Communicative Understanding: The Deductive Strategy

1 The Argument that Language Forces People to Share Reasons

2 The Publicity of Linguistic Consciousness

3 Obligating People to Take on Others' Communicated Reasons

4 The Distinction between Felt Obligation and Actual Obligation

5 The Significance of Understanding versus Endorsing Reasons

Part 2 Enlightenism: A New Theory that Answers the Hard Questions

Chapter 5 Three Theses: Constructivism, Publicity and Universality

1 The Source and Nature of Reasons

2 Theoretical Possibilities

3 Public/Objective Reasons in Realism and UT

4 Private/Subjective Reasons and UT

5 Weak Realism and Mixed Theories

6 Constructed Reasons and UT

Chapter 6 The Universality of Reasons in Constructivism

1 Simple Requests

2 Theoretical Reasons for Universality

3 Conflicting Reasons

4 A New Theory That Answers the Hard Questions

Chapter 7 Creating Legitimate Reasons and the Enlightenist Account

1 Conferring Value in Constructivist Ethics

2 Thoroughgoing Constructivism's Lapse into Subjectivism

3 Enlightenism: Ideal Reflection on Relevant Identities

4 Ideal Reflection and the Moral Identity

5 Counterfactual Reasons

Chapter 8 Private Reasons and Reasons of Autonomy

1 Reasons of Autonomy

2 Korsgaard's Theory and Its Incompatibility with Private Reasons

3 Reasons of Autonomy: The Natural Reading

4 Reasons of Autonomy as Public: Korsgaard's Alternative

5 Objections to Korsgaard's Interpretation of Reasons of Autonomy

6 Competitive Ambitions

Part 3 Resolving Conflicts between Reasons

Chapter 9 The Relative Strength of Reasons

1 Intuitive Differences in the Depth of Reasons

2 A Realist View

3 Two Constructivist Views

Chapter 10 Criterions for Distinguishing Deeper Reasons

1 Defining Depth in Reasons

2 The Group Size Account

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Salazar, Heather. Creating a shared morality

ISBN:

9789004471078

9004471073

Publisher Number:

40030809120

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