The Morals of Modernity / Charles Larmore.
Material type: TextSeries: Modern European Philosophy | Modern European PhilosophyPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: 1 online resource (240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780511625091 (ebook)
- 170/.9/04 20
- BJ319 .L37 1996
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The essays collected in this volume all explore the problem of the relation between moral philosophy and modernity. Charles Larmore addresses this problem by attempting to define the way distinctive forms of modern experience should orientate our moral thinking. Charles Larmore wonders whether the dominant forms of modern philosophy have not become blind to important dimensions of the moral life.The book argues against recent attempts to return to the virtue-centered perspective of ancient Greek ethics. As well as exploring the differences between ancient and modern ethics, the author examines such topics as the roles of reason and history in our moral understanding, the inadequacy of philsophical naturalism, and the foundations of modern liberalism. There are also extended discussions of a number of leading contemporary philosophers: Rawls, Habermas, Williams and Rorty.
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