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Beschreibung
There has been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism in recent years, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in meta-ethical questions or in normative issues about caring or benevolence. The present book seeks to offer a systematically unified picture of both sorts of topics by making central use of the notion of empathy. The hope is that such an approach will give sentimentalism a "second chance" against the ethical rationalism that hastypically dominated the landscape of ethical theory.
There has been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism in recent years, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in meta-ethical questions or in normative issues about caring or benevolence. The present book seeks to offer a systematically unified picture of both sorts of topics by making central use of the notion of empathy. The hope is that such an approach will give sentimentalism a "second chance" against the ethical rationalism that hastypically dominated the landscape of ethical theory.
Über den Autor
Michael Slote is UST Professor of Ethics at the University of Miami, and the author of Morals from Motives, (Oxford University Press 2007).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • Acknowledgements

  • Introduction

  • 1. Empathy: Cement of the Moral Universe

  • 2. Moral Approval and Disapproval

  • 3. Empathy in Moral Judgment

  • 4. A New Kind of Reference-Fixing

  • 5. How to Derive "Ought" from "Is"

  • 6. The Use of Moral Judgments

  • 7. Between Motive and Morality

  • 8. Paternalism and Patriarchy

  • 9. Justice

  • 10. Empathy, Objectivity, and Rationality

  • Conclusion

  • Index

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