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Explaining the Reasons We Share - Explanation and Expression in Ethics, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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Explaining the Reasons We Share - Explanation and Expression in Ethics, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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Normative ethical theories generally purport to be explanatory-to
tell us not just what is good, or what conduct is right, but why.
Drawing on both historical and contemporary approaches, Mark
Schroeder offers a distinctive picture of how such explanations
must work, and of the specific commitments that they incur.
According to Schroeder, explanatory moral theories can be perfectly
general only if they are reductive, offering accounts of what it is
for something to be good, right, or what someone ought to do. So
ambitious, highly general normative ethical theorizing is
continuous with metaethical inquiry. Moreover, he argues that such
explanatory theories face a special challenge in accounting for
reasons or obligations that are universally shared, and develops an
autonomy-based strategy for meeting this challenge, in the case of
requirements of rationality. Explaining the Reasons We Share pulls
together over a decade of work by one of the leading figures in
contemporary metaethics. One new and ten previously published
papers weave together treatments of reasons, reduction,
supervenience, instrumental rationality, and legislation, to paint
a sharp contrast between two plausible but competing pictures of
the nature and limits of moral explanation-one from Cudworth and
one indebted to Kant. A substantive new introduction provides a map
to reading these essays as a unified argument, and qualifies their
conclusions in light of Schroeder's current views. Along with its
sister volume, Expressing Our Attitudes, this volume advances the
theme that metaethical inquiry is continuous with other areas of
philosophy.
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