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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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Im Alltag wie in ethischen Fachdiskussionen verweisen wir häufig auf moralische Intuitionen. Doch welche Art mentaler Zustand sind moralische Intuitionen eigentlich? Wie "generieren" sie moralische Wertungen? Unter Rückgriff auf zeitgenössische Theorien aus der Philosophie des Geistes argumentiert die Autorin, dass moralische Intuitionen zu konkreten Fällen eine Form der Emotion sind. Sie spezifiziert in Anlehnung an Millikans biosemantisches Intentionalitätskonzept und Prinz' Emotionstheorie, was diese moralisch wertenden Emotionen auszeichnet und welche mentalen Prozesse ihrem Auftreten zugrunde liegen. Burgbachers Modell gibt eine zeitgemäße, empirisch orientierte Antwort auf die stark diskutierte Vorfrage der Ethik und Metaethik nach der Natur moralischer Intuitionen. Es bietet eine solide Basis für die Diskussion des epistemischen und handlungsbezogenen Status moralischer Intuitionen.

Emotionsphilosophie --- intentionality --- Teleo-/Biosemantik --- teleo-/biosemantics --- Ruth G. Millikan --- Intentionalität --- intuitionism --- Intuitionismus --- Jesse Prinz --- metaethics --- moral knowledge --- moral perception --- moral psychology --- moralische Fähigkeiten --- moralisches Wissen --- Moralpsychologie --- philosophy of emotions

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Friedrich Schiller is not merely one of Germany's foremost poets. He is also one of the major German contributors to world literature. The undying words he gave to characters such as Marquis Posa in Don Carlos and Wilhelm Tell in the eponymous drama continue to underscore the need for human freedom. Schiller cultivated hope in the actualization of moral knowledge through aesthetic education and critical reflection, leading to his ideal of a more humane humanity. At the same time, he was fully cognizant of the problems that attend various forms of idealism. Yet for Schiller, ultimately, love remains the gravitational center of the universe and of human existence, and beyond life and death joy prevails. This collection of cutting-edge essays by some of the world's leading Schiller experts constitutes a milestone in scholarship. It includes in-depth discussions of the writer's major dramatic and poetic works, his essays on aesthetics, and his activities as historian, anthropologist, and physiologist, as well as of his relation to the ancients and of Schiller reception in 20th-century Germany.

Contributors: Steven D. Martinson, Walter Hinderer, David Pugh, Otto Dann, Werner von Stransky-Stranka-Greifenfels, J. M. van der Laan, Rolf-Peter Janz, Lesley Sharpe, Norbert Oellers, Dieter Borchmeyer, Karl S. Guthke, Wulf Koepke.

Steven D. Martinson is Professor of German at the University of Arizona.

Schiller, Friedrich, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Swillŏ, Pʻŭridŭrihi, --- Hsi-lo, --- Shiler, Fridrikh, --- Schiller, Friedrich von, --- Shiller, Fridrikh, --- Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von, --- Schiller, Frederick, --- Hsi-le, --- Shiller, F. --- Schiller, Frideriko, --- Šileri, Pʻridrix, --- Šileris, Frydrichas, --- Schiller, J. C. F. von --- פריגריך פאן שיללער, --- שיללער --- שיללער פריעדריך --- שיללער, פרידריך --- שיללער, פרידריך, --- שיללער, פ., --- שילער, פרידריך --- שילער, פרידריך, --- שילר, יוהן כריסטוף פרידדריך פון, --- שילר, יוהן כריסטוף פרידריך פון, --- שילר, פרידריך --- שילר, פרידריך, --- שילר, פ. --- שלר, פרידריך, --- Schiller, J. C. Friedrich von --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- Effi Briest. --- Friedrich Schiller. --- German poet. --- aesthetic education. --- aesthetics. --- critical reflection. --- end of realism. --- human freedom. --- idealism. --- joy. --- love. --- moral knowledge. --- philosophy.