Nora Hämäläinen: Descriptive Ethics | Buch

Cover: 9781137586162 | Descriptive Ethics | What does Moral Philosophy Know about Morality?

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Beschreibung

This book is an investigation into the descriptive task of moral philosophy. Nora Hämäläinen explores the challenge of providing rich and accurate pictures of the moral conditions, values, virtues, and norms under which people live and have lived, along with relevant knowledge about the human animal and human nature. While modern moral philosophy has focused its energies on normative and metaethical theory, the task of describing, uncovering, and inquiring into moral frameworks and moral practices has mainly been left to social scientists and historians. Nora Hämäläinen argues that this division of labour has detrimental consequences for moral philosophy and that a reorientation toward descriptive work is needed in moral philosophy. She traces resources for a descriptive philosophical ethics in the work of four prominent philosophers of the twentieth century: John Dewey, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michel Foucault, and Charles Taylor, while also calling on thinkers inspired by them.

Über den Autor

Nora Hämäläinen is a docent (affiliated senior researcher) at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and a research fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden, 2016-2017. She is the author of Literature and Moral Theory and has co-edited the volume Language, Ethics and Animal Life - Wittgenstein and Beyond (with Niklas Forsberg and Mikel Burley).

Zusammenfassung

Contributes to the growing scientific and philosophical literature on valuation studies

Addresses analytic ethical theory in a fresh way

Brings together methodological questions raised in post-Wittgensteinian ethics, Pragmatist ethics, and post-Foucaudlian discussions of personhood and subjectivity with communitarian approaches to ethics

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - What Does Moral Philosophy Know About Morality?.- 1. Moral Philosophy Today.- 2. Morality as Known by Moral Philosophers.- 3. The Foundational Project of Ethics and a Different Way of going Below the Surface.- 4. The Challenge from X-phi?.- 5. Dewey's Empirical Ethics.- 6. Wittgensteinian Applications.- 7. Foucault's Archeology and Genealogy of the Self.- 8. Charles Taylor's Modern Self.- 9. The Descriptive and the Empirical.- 10. Descriptive Ethics and the Philosopher.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	x 132 S.
ISBN-13:	9781137586162
ISBN-10:	1137586168
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Hämäläinen, Nora
Auflage:	1st edition 2016
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Nora Hämäläinen
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.10.2016
Gewicht:	0,318 kg