Moral teleology a theory of progress
"This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated, naturalistically respectable form of teleology can be defended. The book's main aim is to flesh...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Routledge
2023.
[2023] |
| Colección: | Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798464206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Introduction
- 1 The Shape of Things to Come: What Is Moral Progress?
- Introduction
- 1.1 The Concept of Moral Progress
- 1.2 But Is It Progress?
- 1.3 Local and Global
- 1.4 Individual and Collective
- 1.5 Wide and Narrow
- 1.6 Moral Regress
- 1.7 One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
- 1.8 Regress for All!
- 1.9 Imperfect Allies
- 1.10 The Princess and the Pea
- 2 Butchering Benevolence: Is Moral Progress Possible?
- Introduction
- 2.1 The Limits of Concern
- 2.2 From Evolution to Conservatism
- 2.3 A Conservative Advantage?
- 2.4 The Wrong Kind of Progress
- 2.5 Does Evolution Constrain Moral Progress?
- 3 The End of Utopia: Does Moral Progress Have a Goal?
- Introduction
- 3.1 Naturalizing Teleology?
- 3.2 Normative Ambivalence
- 3.3 What Is Teleology, Anyway?
- (i) Directionality
- (ii) Agency
- (iii) Probability
- (iv) Morality
- (v) Transparency
- (vi) Scale
- (vii) Uniqueness
- (viii) Timing
- 3.4 Taking Teleology Seriously
- 4 Looking Forward: Towards Teleology 2.0
- Introduction
- 4.1 The Case for Decline
- 4.2 Debunking Teleology? Anti-Narrativism
- 4.3 The New Optimism: Empirical Evidence for Progress
- 4.4 The Cunning of Reason: Teleology Without Goals
- 4.5 The Arc(s) of History
- 4.6 Circularity and Smugness
- 5 Beyond Expansion: Which Types of Moral Progress Are There?
- Introduction
- 5.1 Well-Being
- 5.2 Equality
- 5.3 Moral Status: The Expanding Circle
- 5.4 Moral Status: The Contracting Circle
- 5.5 Liberty and Autonomy
- 5.6 Fewer Bad Norms
- 5.7 More Good Norms
- 5.8 Improved Compliance
- 5.9 Improved Moral Knowledge
- 5.10 Moral Progress: Towards a Systematic Typology
- 5.11 Evolutionary Conservatism Again
- 6 Mechanisms of Moral Evolution: What Drives Moral Progress?
- Introduction
- 6.1 Energy Capture, Group Size, and Technology: Material Mechanisms.
- 6.2 Social Integration: Functionalistic Mechanisms
- 6.3 Knowledge and Information: Epistemic Mechanisms
- 6.4 Crisis and Struggle: Social Movements
- 6.5 New Norms: Experiments in Living
- 7 Unsocial Sociability: How Can Moral Progress Be Sustained?
- Introduction
- 7.1 Intelligent Design
- 7.2 Storage and Retrieval: Mechanisms of Transmission
- 7.3 Norms and Practices
- 7.4 The Socially Extended Mind
- 7.5 Institutions Rule
- 7.6 Institutional Bypassing
- 7.7 Proxy Institutions
- 7.8 Ameliorative Institutions
- 7.9 Slow Institutions?
- 7.10 Reflexive Institutions
- 7.11 Extracting Norms From Institutions
- 8 The Long March: Does Moral Progress Require Moral Facts?
- Introduction
- 8.1 From Moral Progress to Moral Facts: The Simple Argument
- 8.2 The Case of Conversion
- 8.3 A Realist Account of Moral Progress
- 8.4 Anti-Realism: Moral and Scientific Progress, Functionalism, and Problem-Solving
- 8.5 Moral Convergence
- 8.6 The Fact of Moral Universalism
- (1) Basic Evaluative Dispositions
- (2) Cooperative Strategies
- (3) Cross-Cultural Values
- (4) Political Values
- 8.7 Realism Requires Disagreement
- Scientific and Moral Knowledge
- Everyday Knowledge and Moral Knowledge
- Easy Moral Knowledge
- Moral Expertise
- Counterattack
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
