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Author Larmore, Charles E

Title The autonomy of morality / Charles Larmore
Published Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 277 pages)
Contents History and truth -- Back to Kant? No way -- Attending to reasons -- John Rawls and moral philosophy -- The autonomy of morality -- The moral basis of political liberalism -- The meanings of political freedom -- Public reason -- Nietzsche and the will to truth -- The idea of a life plan
Summary 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 does human freedom consist in imposing 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. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ethics.
Reasoning.
Ethics
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics.
Reasoning.
Ethics
Reasoning
Ethik
Begründung
Argumentationstheorie
Moralisches Handeln
Autonomie
Moralität
Politische Philosophie
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0511429363
9780511429361
9780511429743
0511429746
9780511816611
0511816618