"The first two lectures place the alternative I defend -- a kind of
pragmatic realism -- in a historical and metaphysical context. Part
of that context is provided by Husserl's remark that the history of
modern philosophy begins with Galileo -- that is, modern philosophy
has been hypnotized by the idea that scientific facts are all the
facts there are. Another part is provided by the analysis of a very
simple example of what I call 'contextual relativity'. The position
I defend holds that truth depends on conceptual scheme and it is
nonetheless 'real truth'.
"In my third lecture I turn to the Kantian antecedents of this
view, explaining what I think should be retained of the Kantian
idea of autonomy as the central theme of morality, and extracting
from Kant's work a 'moral image of the world' that connects the
ideals of equality and intellectual liberty. In this lecture I
defend the idea that moral images are an indispensible part of our
moral and cultural heritage.
"In the final lecture I defend the idea of moral objectivity. I
compare our epistemological positions in ethics, history, analysis
of human character, and science, and I argue that in no area can we
hope for a 'foundation' which is more ultimate than the beliefs
that actually, at a given time, function as foundational in the
area, the beliefs concerning which one has to say 'this is where my
spade is turned'. In ethics such beliefs are represented in moral
images of the world".
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