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This book is an investigation into the descriptive task of moral
philosophy. Nora Hamalainen explores the challenge of providing
rich and accurate pictures of the moral conditions, values,
virtues, and norms under which people live and have lived, along
with relevant knowledge about the human animal and human nature.
While modern moral philosophy has focused its energies on normative
and metaethical theory, the task of describing, uncovering, and
inquiring into moral frameworks and moral practices has mainly been
left to social scientists and historians. Nora Hamalainen argues
that this division of labour has detrimental consequences for moral
philosophy and that a reorientation toward descriptive work is
needed in moral philosophy. She traces resources for a descriptive
philosophical ethics in the work of four prominent philosophers of
the twentieth century: John Dewey, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michel
Foucault, and Charles Taylor, while also calling on thinkers
inspired by them.
The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change,
transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food
consumption, novel forms of family life and technological
developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This
raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral
changes implicit in such alterations. This volume is the first to
address moral change as such. It brings together anthropologists
and philosophers to discuss how to study and theorize the change of
norms, concepts, emotions, moral frameworks and forms of
personhood.
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals was Iris Murdoch's major
philosophical testament and a highly original and ambitious attempt
to talk about our time. Yet in the scholarship on her philosophical
work thus far it has often been left in the shade of her earlier
work. This volume brings together 16 scholars who offer accessible
readings of chapters and themes in the book, connecting them to
Murdoch's larger oeuvre, as well as to central themes in 20th
century and contemporary thought. The essays bring forth the
strength, originality, and continuing relevance of Murdoch's late
thought, addressing, among other matters, her thinking about the
Good, the role and nature of metaphysics in the contemporary world,
the roles of art in human understanding, questions of unity and
plurality in thinking, the possibilities of spiritual life without
God, and questions of style and sensibility in intellectual work.
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals was Iris Murdoch's major
philosophical testament and a highly original and ambitious attempt
to talk about our time. Yet in the scholarship on her philosophical
work thus far it has often been left in the shade of her earlier
work. This volume brings together 16 scholars who offer accessible
readings of chapters and themes in the book, connecting them to
Murdoch's larger oeuvre, as well as to central themes in 20th
century and contemporary thought. The essays bring forth the
strength, originality, and continuing relevance of Murdoch's late
thought, addressing, among other matters, her thinking about the
Good, the role and nature of metaphysics in the contemporary world,
the roles of art in human understanding, questions of unity and
plurality in thinking, the possibilities of spiritual life without
God, and questions of style and sensibility in intellectual work.
Literature and Moral Theory investigates how literature, in the
past 30 years, has been used as a means for transforming the
Anglo-American moral philosophical landscape, which until recently
was dominated by certain ways of "doing theory". It illuminates the
unity of the overall agenda of the ethics/literature discussion in
Anglo-American moral philosophy today, the affinities and
differences between the separate strands discernible in the
discussion, and the relationship of the ethics/literature
discussion to other (complexly overlapping) trends in late-20th
century Anglo-American moral philosophy: neo-Aristotelianism,
post-Wittgensteinian ethics, particularism and anti-theory. It
shows why contemporary philosophers have felt the need for
literature, how they have come to use it for their own
(philosophically radical) purposes of understanding and argument,
and thus how this turn toward literature can be used for the
benefit of a moral philosophy which is alive to the varieties of
lived morality.
Literature and Moral Theory investigates how literature, in the
past 30 years, has been used as a means for transforming the
Anglo-American moral philosophical landscape, which until recently
was dominated by certain ways of "doing theory". It illuminates the
unity of the overall agenda of the ethics/literature discussion in
Anglo-American moral philosophy today, the affinities and
differences between the separate strands discernible in the
discussion, and the relationship of the ethics/literature
discussion to other (complexly overlapping) trends in late-20th
century Anglo-American moral philosophy: neo-Aristotelianism,
post-Wittgensteinian ethics, particularism and anti-theory. It
shows why contemporary philosophers have felt the need for
literature, how they have come to use it for their own
(philosophically radical) purposes of understanding and argument,
and thus how this turn toward literature can be used for the
benefit of a moral philosophy which is alive to the varieties of
lived morality.
New research into human and animal consciousness, a heightened
awareness of the methods and consequences of intensive farming, and
modern concerns about animal welfare and ecology are among the
factors that have made our relationship to animals an area of
burning interest in contemporary philosophy. Utilizing methods
inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein, the contributors to this volume
explore this area in a variety of ways. Topics discussed include: *
scientific vs. non-scientific ways of describing human and animal
behaviour* the ethics of eating particular animal species* human
nature, emotions, and instinctive reactions* responses of wonder
towards the natural world* the moral relevance of literature* the
concept of dignity* the question of whether non-human animals can
use languageThis book will be of great value to anyone interested
in philosophical and interdisciplinary issues concerning language,
ethics and humanity's relation to animals and the natural world.
New research into human and animal consciousness, a heightened
awareness of the methods and consequences of intensive farming, and
modern concerns about animal welfare and ecology are among the
factors that have made our relationship to animals an area of
burning interest in contemporary philosophy. Utilizing methods
inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein, the contributors to this volume
explore this area in a variety of ways. Topics discussed include:
scientific vs. non-scientific ways of describing human and animal
behaviour; the ethics of eating particular animal species; human
nature, emotions, and instinctive reactions; responses of wonder
towards the natural world; the moral relevance of literature; the
concept of dignity; and the question whether non-human animals can
use language. This book will be of great value to anyone interested
in philosophical and interdisciplinary issues concerning language,
ethics and humanity's relation to animals and the natural world.
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