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Beyond Moral Judgment (Paperback)
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What is moral thought and what kinds of demands does it impose?
Alice Crary's book "Beyond Moral Judgment" claims that even the
most perceptive contemporary answers to these questions offer no
more than partial illumination, owing to an overly narrow focus on
judgments that apply moral concepts (for example, "good," "wrong,"
"selfish," "courageous") and a corresponding failure to register
that moral thinking includes more than such judgments. Drawing on
what she describes as widely misinterpreted lines of thought in the
writings of Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, Crary argues that
language is an inherently moral acquisition and that any stretch of
thought, without regard to whether it uses moral concepts, may
express the moral outlook encoded in a person's modes of speech.
She challenges us to overcome our fixation on moral judgments and
direct attention to responses that animate all our individual
linguistic habits. Her argument incorporates insights from
McDowell, Wiggins, Diamond, Cavell, and Murdoch and integrates a
rich set of examples from feminist theory as well as from
literature, including works by Jane Austen, E. M. Forster, Tolstoy,
Henry James, and Theodor Fontane. The result is a powerful case for
transforming our understanding of the difficulty of moral
reflection and of the scope of our ethical concerns.
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