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Title: The Authority of Reason by Jean Hampton, Richard Healey ISBN: 0-521-55428-4 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Continuing the morality debate
Comment: For readers aquainted with philosophical jargon, this book makes sense; for the common reader, her dense prose requires at least a dictionary. Jean Hampton deconstructs naturalistic philosophy (the idea that moral claims should be explained using scientific method and logic) and asserts a moral objectivist position (that moral claims are objective in nature and external to the individual). Her ideas are interesting and provacative, especially because of the naturalistic trend prevalent in society right now. Most people would agree with Hampton's adversaries--that there are not external norms that dictate our morality--as moral claims are usually seen as a product of our relative upbringing or society. However, she persuasively writes against this common notion, though it is hard to grasp her entire point at times. I enjoyed the book, though it could have gone through a couple more revisions if she hadn't died before she was able to. Her early death is a deprivation, especially as a loss to the discussion of modern moral philosophy.
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Title: Practical Reason and Norms by Joseph Raz ISBN: 0198268343 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Facts, Values, and Norms : Essays toward a Morality of Consequence (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Peter Railton, Ernest Sosa, Jonathan Dancy, John Haldane, Gilbert Harman, Frank Jackson, William G. Lucan ISBN: 0521426936 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 17 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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Title: Essays on Moral Realism (Cornell Paperbacks) by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord ISBN: 0801495415 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Thinking How to Live by Allan Gibbard ISBN: 0674011678 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 30 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics by Alexander Miller ISBN: 074562345X Publisher: Polity Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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