Moral sentimentalism
By: Michael Slote.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780195391442
Subjects: Ethics; Caring; Empathy
Description: There has been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism in recent years, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in meta-ethical questions or in normative issues about caring or benevolence. This book presents a systematic revival of moral sentimentalism across both normative and meta-ethical issues.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Empathy : cement of the moral universe; title: Introducing empathy; title: Empathy, partiality, and morality; title: Moral approval and disapproval; title: Empathy in moral judgment; title: A new kind of reference-fixing; title: How to derive "ought" from "is"; title: The use of moral judgments; title: Between motive and morality; title: Paternalism and patriarchy; title: Respect; title: Autonomy; title: When is paternalism lustified?; title: Justice; title: The empathy in justice; title: Distributive social justice; title: International and global justice; title: Empathy, objectivity, and rationality; title: The focus of empathy; title: Objectivity based in empathy; title: Objectivity and empathic concern; title: Relational objectivity; title: Reason, emotion, and science.