Foundation for a Natural Morality (eBook)

A Deductive Approach for Defending and Developing a Moral Theory

Edmund Wall (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
192 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0301-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the foundations of morality and criticizes various philosophical justifications that have been offered for basic moral principles or values throughout the years. This book introduces and defends what is designed to be a sure justification for a natural morality and its basic moral principles.

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Few philosophers attempt to establish that there is an evaluative and moral realm. They make these major assumptions without argument. This plays into the hands of moral nihilists and certain other moral skeptics. A major obstacle that prevents philosophers from developing such arguments is the long-standing view that one cannot derive an "e;ought"e; from an "e;is,"e; that is, one cannot begin with purely descriptive non-evaluative propositions and deduce an evaluative or moral proposition. In this book, Edmund Wall develops arguments for evaluative and moral principles. His deductive reasoning begins with certain purely descriptive and non-evaluative propositions concerning human nature, establishing a basic moral principle of human life and a basic moral principle of knowledge. By providing such deductive arguments for basic moral principles, Wall makes considerable progress in establishing a sure foundation for morality. He further develops his case by responding to a plethora of anticipated objections against his two arguments, and by delineating the advantages of his own moral approach over a number of influential moral theories and competing accounts of moral reasoning.

Autor

Edmund Wall is associate professor of philosophy at East Carolina University.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments One: Introduction Two: Toward a Foundation for a Natural Morality Three: Competing Epistemological Approaches Toward Moral Foundations Four: Moral Relativism, Moral Objectivism, and Natural Moralities Five: Hill’s Kantian Moral Perspective and the Prospect of Grounding Kantian Morality Six: Portmore’s Moral Theory Seven: Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: Bedke • Boyle • dancy • Ethical Theory • ethics • Finnis • Foot • Gewirth • Grisez • Herman • Hill • is-ought gap • Kant • Meta-ethics • Moral Epistemology • Moral judgment • moral metaphysics • Moral Naturalism • Moral Theory • Nelson • normative judgment • Pigden • Portmore • Ross • Sinnott-Armstrong • Social Darwinism • Sociobiology • Wong
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0301-2 / 1498503012
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0301-3 / 9781498503013