Morality and metaphysics / Charles Larmore, Brown University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larmore, Charles E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 238 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

In this book, Charles Larmore develops an account of morality, freedom, and reason that rejects the naturalistic metaphysics shaping much of modern thought. Reason, Larmore argues, is responsiveness to reasons, and reasons themselves are essentially normative in character, consisting in the way that physical and psychological facts - facts about the world of nature - count in favor of possibilities of thought and action that we can take up. Moral judgments are true or false in virtue of the moral reasons there are. We need therefore a more comprehensive metaphysics that recognizes a normative dimension to reality as well. Though taking its point of departure in the analysis of moral judgment, this book branches widely into related topics such as freedom and the causal order of the world, textual interpretation, the nature of the self, self-knowledge, and the concept of duties to ourselves.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I.1 Metaphysics

I.2 Morality

I.3 Reason

I.4 Freedom

I.5 The Self

I.6 Philosophy

Part I The Structure and Scope of the Moral Point of View

Chapter 1 Reflection and Morality

1.1 Our Humanity

1.2 The Nature of Reflection

1.3 Reflection and Knowledge

1.4 The Reality of Reasons

1.5 The Moral Point of View

1.6 Impersonality and Intersubjectivity

Chapter 2 The Idea of Duties to Oneself

2.1 Problems of Coherence

2.2 Further Difficulties

2.3 The Impersonal and Personal Points of View

2.4 How Duties to Oneself May Make Sense

Chapter 3 The Ethics of Reading

3.1 The Reading Relation

3.2 Some Basics of Textual Interpretation

3.3 The Author's Intention

3.4 Meaning and Significance

3.5 Reading and Respect

Chapter 4 The Holes in Holism

4.1 First- and Second-Order Questions

4.2 Truth and Morals

4.3 Interpretation

4.4 Pluralism

Part II Self and World

Chapter 5 Kant and the Meanings of Autonomy

5.1 Political and Legal Prehistory

5.2 Thinking for Oneself

5.3 Self-Governance

5.4 Kant's Concept of Autonomy

5.5 Reason and World

Chapter 6 Moral Philosophy and Metaphysical Evasion

6.1 Anti-Naturalism

6.2 The Triple Theory

6.3 Parfit and Kant

6.4 Ontological Ambivalences

6.5 Scanlon on Reasons

6.6 Ontological Domains

6.7 Reasons and the One World There Is

6.8 Being Moved by Reasons

6.9 A Better Metaphysics

Chapter 7 The Conditions of Human Freedom

7.1 Reason and the Reality of Reasons

7.2 Reason and Freedom

7.3 Freedom and Causal Determination

7.4 Acting and Knowing

7.5 Ought and Can

7.6 Reasons as Causes

7.7 Self-Formation

Chapter 8 Self-Knowledge and Commitment

8.1 Why Does Self-Knowledge Matter?.

8.2 First and Third Person

8.3 Understanding Others

8.4 Knowing Our Own Mind

8.5 Overcoming the Cartesian Tradition

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-69996-0

1-108-62960-1

1-108-69132-3

OCLC:

1253440871