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Metaethics from a first person standpoint : an introduction to moral philosophy
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ISBN: 9781783742004 9781783742011 1783742003 1783742011 1783741996 9781783741991 9781783741991 1783741996 9781783741984 1783741988 9781783742028 178374202X 282188169X Year: 2016 Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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"Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by 'right' and 'wrong.' Looking at a wide spectrum of topics including moral language, realism and anti-realism, reasons and motives, relativism, and moral progress, this book engages students and general readers in order to enhance their understanding of morality and moral discourse as cultural practices. Catherine Wilson innovatively employs a first-person narrator to report step-by-step an individual's reflections, beginning from a position of radical scepticism, on the possibility of objective moral knowledge. The reader is invited to follow along with this reasoning, and to challenge or agree with each major point. Incrementally, the narrator is led to certain definite conclusions about 'oughts' and norms in connection with self-interest, prudence, social norms, and finally morality. Scepticism is overcome, and the narrator arrives at a good understanding of how moral knowledge and moral progress are possible, though frequently long in coming. Accessibly written, Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint presupposes no prior training in philosophy and is a must-read for philosophers, students and general readers interested in gaining a better understanding of morality as a personal philosophical quest."--Publisher's website.


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Plutarch's ›Parallel Lives‹ - Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement
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ISBN: 3110574713 9783110574715 3110573911 9783110573916 9783110572988 3110572982 9783110574722 3110574721 Year: 2018 Volume: 57 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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This book examines Putarch's narrative techniques in the Parallel Lives of drawing his readers into the process of moral evaluation and exposing them to the complexities involved in making moral judgements. It thus allows a point of entry into Plutarch's praise-and-blame rhetoric in the Lives and elucidates the exact working of his readers' cooperative activity in reading about and forming the right judgement on the lives of the great men of history.

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