Comparative Metaethics: Neglected Perspectives on the Foundations of Morality

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Colin Marshall
Routledge, Oct 10, 2019 - Philosophy - 264 pages
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This collection of original essays explores metaethical views from outside the mainstream European tradition. The guiding motivation is that important discussions about the ultimate nature of morality can be found far beyond ancient Greece and modern Europe. The volume’s aim is to show how rich the possibilities are for comparative metaethics, and how much these comparisons offer challenges and new perspectives to contemporary analytic metaethics. Representing five continents, the thinkers discussed range from ancient Egyptian, ancient Chinese, and the Mexican (Aztec) cultures to more recent thinkers like Augusto Salazar Bondy, Bimal Krishna Matilal, Nishida Kitarō, and Susan Sontag. The philosophical topics discussed include religious language, moral discovery, moral disagreement, essences’ relation to evaluative facts, metaphysical harmony and moral knowledge, naturalism, moral perception, and quasi-realism. This volume will be of interest to anyone interested in metaethics or comparative philosophy.

 

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Contents

Introduction
The Metaethics of Maat
The Groundedness of Normativity or Indigenous Normativity Through
The Nature of Mexica Ethics
How the Muscogee
Species and the Good in Anne Conways Metaethics
An Aesthetic Defense of Confucian Ritual
Matilals Metaethics
NonCognitivist Moral Realism in
Three Lessons on the Metaethics
Active Intuition and Contemporary
Augusto Salazar Bondys Philosophy of Value
Sontag on Impertinent Sympathy and Photographs of Evil
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About the author (2019)

Colin Marshall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, USA. His research focuses on the intersection of historical and contemporary philosophy of mind and metaethics. He is the author of Compassionate Moral Realism (2018).

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TitleComparative Metaethics: Neglected Perspectives on the Foundations of Morality
Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
EditorColin Marshall
PublisherRoutledge, 2019
ISBN0429787162, 9780429787164
Length264 pages
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Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Philosophy / General
  
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