Critique of the Empiricist Explanation of Morality Is there a Natural Equivalent of Categorical Morality?
a. 'Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. ' Thus Kant formulates his attitude to morality (Critique of Practical Reason, p. 260). He draws a sharp di...
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Springer Netherlands
1981, 1981
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1981 |
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Table of Contents:
- I: A topography of the empiricist theories of law
- II: Hobbes’s empiricist theory of morality
- III: The empiricist theories of David Hume and Adam Smith
- IV: Comte and positivism
- V: Herbert Spencer and evolutionism
- VI: Guyau’s philosophy of life
- VII: Durkheim’s sociological ethics
- VIII: Stevenson’s and Hare’s analysis of language
- IX: Scandinavian realism
- X: Scepticism or empiricism?
- XI: The problem of the empiricist explanation of normativity: is there a natural equivalent of ‘duty’?
- XII: The empiricist justification of the claims of morality
- XIII: The hierarchy argument as a justification of morality
- XIV: The congruency argument
- XV: The moral game
- XVI: Conclusion
- Index of Names