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Auteur(s) : Griffin, James (1933-2019)
Titre(s) : What can philosophy contribute to ethics? [Texte imprimé] / James Griffin
Publication : Oxford ; New-York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (157 p.) ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 137-153. Index
Ethics appears early in the life of a culture. It is not the creation of philosophers.
Many philosophers today think that their job is to take the ethics of their society
in hand, analyse it into parts, purge the bad ideas, and organize the good into a
systematic moral theory. The philosophers' ethics that results is likely to be very
different from the culture's raw ethics and, they think, being better, should replace
it. But few of us, even among philosophers, settle real-life moral questions by consulting
the Categorical Imperative or the Principle of Utility, largely because, if we do,
we often do not trust the outcome or cannot even reliably enough decide what it is.
By contrast, James Griffin explores the question what philosophers can reasonably
expect to contribute to normative ethics or to the ethics of a culture. Griffin argues
that moral philosophers must tailor their work to what ordinary humans' motivational
capabilities, and he offers a new account of moral deliberation
Sujet(s) : Morale
Philosophie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198748090. - ISBN 0198748094
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45338047w
Notice n° :
FRBNF45338047
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Table des matières : Introduction ; The idea of ethics ; "Ought" implies "can:" motivation ; "Ought"
implies "can:" knowledge ; Naturalizing ethics: the Newtonizers ; Naturalizing ethics:
the Darwinizers ; Systematizing ethics ; Rejecting "morality" ; Equalizing what?
; What can philosophy contribute to ethics? ; Appendix: the influence of Newton:
further examples ; Endnotes ; Index.
