The autonomy of morality
By: Charles Larmore.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780521889131; 9780521717823
Subjects: Ethics; Reasoning
Description: "In The Autonomy of Morality, Charles Larmore challenges two ideas that have shaped the modern mind. The world, he argues, is not a realm of value-neutral fact, nor is reason our capacity to impose principles of our own devising on an alien reality. Rather, reason consists in being responsive to reasons for thought and action that arise from the world itself. In particular, Larmore shows that the moral good has an authority that speaks for itself. Only in this light does the true basis of a liberal political order come into view, as well as the role of unexpected goods in the makeup of a life lived well."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History and truth; title: Back to Kant? no way; title: Attending to reasons; title: John Rawls and moral philosophy; title: The autonomy of morality; title: The moral basis of political liberalism; title: The meanings of political freedom; title: Public reason; title: Nietzsche and the will to truth; title: The idea of a life plan.