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Essays on Ethics and Culture (Hardcover)
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Essays on Ethics and Culture (Hardcover)
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These essays discuss various ontological and epistemological
questions in moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from
Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the later Wittgenstein, and Iris
Murdoch, though without seeking to weave these into any unified
system. The general approach is realist or objectivist, paying some
attention to the role of imaginative literature (especially the
novel) in ethical formation. A common theme is the lived experience
of the socially situated subject, including our capacity for
engagement with the values present in an inherited tradition or
'form of life'. Such engagement, once raised to consciousness, may
contain elements both of affirmation and of cultural critique. In
the book as a whole, the critical theme predominates, with a
certain emphasis on discourses of social disruption. But it is
always assumed that the right place to stand as an observer of the
domain of value is within that domain, and that moral critique will
be immanent with respect to the culture addressed-that is, it will
make do with just the conceptual and linguistic resources available
to ordinary participants in moral, political, or aesthetic
conversation.
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