TY - BOOK ID - 86026259 TI - Morality and metaphysics PY - 2021 SN - 1108691323 1108629601 1108472346 1108699960 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Ethics. KW - Metaphysics. KW - Philosophy KW - God KW - Ontology KW - Philosophy of mind KW - Deontology KW - Ethics, Primitive KW - Ethology KW - Moral philosophy KW - Morality KW - Morals KW - Philosophy, Moral KW - Science, Moral KW - Values UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86026259 AB - 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. ER -