Moral Discourse and Practice: Some Philosophical Approaches: 1st (First) Edition

by Stephen Darwall

The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of interest in metaethics, placing questions about the nature and status of ethical judgment at the very center of contemporary moral philosophy. What are ethical judgments about? And what is their relation to practice? How can ethical judgment aspire to objectivity and have an intrinsic relation to feelings or the will? Moral Discourse and Practice collects important recent work on these core metaethical issues. Reinvigorated naturalist moral realism and the various versions of moral realism, as well as irrealist, expressivist and neo-Kantian constructivist theories are all represented in this fine collection, testifying to the author's attempt to objectively approach moral philosophy's fundamental debates.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published September 12, 1996

Reviews

[saml · Rating 3 out of 5]

very good textbook. crazy that i liked realist naturalism as represented by boyd and railton. crazier that habermas is included in the anthology

[laura]

this is the primary text for mark richard's moral psychology course this semester. solid. it does what an anthology is suppose to do. not pleasure reading, but genuinely engaging-- a way to get the questions, the language, the background, the whole hang of the thing. this thing. meta-ethics.

[Christian Giliberto · Rating 5 out of 5]

THE metaethics anthology in my opinion. Very representative selections by eminent editors.