Fellow-feeling and the moral life /

How do our feelings for others shape our attitudes and conduct towards them? Is morality primarily a matter of rational choice, or instinctual feeling? Joseph Duke Filonowicz takes the reader on an engaging, informative tour of some of the main issues in philosophical ethics, explaining and defendin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Filonowicz, Joseph Duke
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Hutcheson, Francis, > 1694-1746.
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, > Earl of, > 1671-1713.
1700-1799
Ethics > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Morale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fellow-feeling and ethical theory : the British sentimentalists
  • The school of sentiment
  • Two conceptions of the moral
  • Morality in the open street
  • A formidable ghost : the Sage of Malmesbury
  • Moral theory and moral advice
  • Designs of remaining chapters
  • Ethical sentimentalism revisited
  • Statement of the argument
  • Ethical rationalism
  • Shaftesbury's ethical sentimentalism
  • Sentimentalism and rationalism
  • Objections to sentimentalism
  • Shaftesbury's ethical system
  • Shaftesbury as moralist
  • The good
  • Obligation
  • Disinterestedness
  • Why should I be moral?
  • Shaftesbury's moral sense
  • The limits of Shaftesburyan sentimentalism
  • Hutcheson's moral sense
  • A sad tale?
  • Hutcheson's moral sense
  • Four naïve questions concerning moral sense
  • What do we perceive by moral sense?
  • Three received views
  • Defining Hutcheson's moral "realism"
  • Charting the return journey
  • Hutcheson's "offensive" argument against ethical rationalism
  • C.D. Broad's defense of moral sense theories in ethics
  • "Some reflections"
  • The subjective theory
  • Analysis part 1 : why moral sense theory is sentimentalistic
  • Analysis part 2 : subjectivism versus naturalism, or, are ethical propositions statistical?
  • Broad's defense, (almost) concluded
  • Broad's offensive argument against ethical rationalism
  • What is innate in moral sense?
  • Moral sense theory : Hutcheson, Broad and beyond
  • James W. Wilson's The moral sense
  • How do very young children come to approve (and disapprove)? occultism versus obscurantism
  • The "hyperoffensive" argument against ethical rationalism
  • Ideas without will
  • Postscript : Hume, Smith and the end of the sentimental school.

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