The disappearance of moral knowledge

Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas Willard, this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the possibility of moral knowledge, such that knowledge of the moral life and of its conduct is no longer routinely...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Willard, Dallas, 1935-2013, author (author), Porter, Steven L., 1970- editor (editor), Preston, Aaron, editor, Ten Elshof, Gregg, 1970- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis [2018].
Edición:First edition
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Moral knowledge disappears
  • A science of ethics
  • G.E. Moore: from science of ethics to nihilism
  • Emotivism: the erasure of moral knowledge
  • A rational form of noncognitivism, rational necessity relocated
  • A consensus of rational people: social constructionism in Rawls
  • Practices, traditions, and narratives: social constructionism in MacIntyre
  • Prospects for a return of moral knowledge.