Praise and blame: moral realism and nits applications
- Type Others
- Publisher PRINCETON
- Author/s Robinson, Daniel N.
- ISBN13 9780691057248
- ISBN10 0691057249
- Pages 225
- Published 2002
- Language English
Sections
Ethics / Philosophy MoralPraise and blame: moral realism and nits applications
The version of moral realism that arises from Robinson's penetrating inquiry -- an inquiry steeped in Aristotelian ethics but deeply informed by modern scientific knowledge of human cognition -- is independent of cognition and emotion. At the same time, Robinson carefully explores how such human attributes succeed or fail in comprehending real moral properties. Through brilliant analyses of constitutional and moral luck of biosocial and genetic versions of psychological determinism, and of relativistic-anthropological accounts of variations in moral precepts, he concludes that none of these conceptions accounts for either the nature of moral properties or the basis upon which they could be known. Ultimately, the theory that Robinson develops preserves moral properties even while acknowledging the conditions that undermine the powers of human will.
- Type Others
- Publisher PRINCETON
- Author/s Robinson, Daniel N.
- ISBN13 9780691057248
- ISBN10 0691057249
- Pages 225
- Published 2002
- Language English