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Ethics beyond the limits : new essays on Bernard Williams’ ethics and the limits of philosophy

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, ©2019Description: ix, 258 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780367582098
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170.92 CHA-E
Contents:
1. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
2. Lonely in Littlemore: confidence in Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
3. Hume's optimism and Williams's pessimism: from "Science of Man" to genealogical critique
4. Williams (on) doing history of philosophy: a case study on Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
5. The good life and the unity of the virtues: some reflections upon Williams on Aristotle
6. Humanism and cruelty in Williams
7. Duty, beauty, and booty: an essay in ethical reappropriation
8. Gauguin's lucky escape: moral luck and the morality system
9. The irrelativism of distance
10. Epoch relativism and our moral hopelessness
11. The inevitability of inauthenticity: Bernard Williams and practical alienation
12. How should one live? Williams on practical deliberation and reasons for acting
13. Practical deliberation and the first person
14. Moral authority and the limits of philosophy
Summary: Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely regarded as one of the most important works of moral philosophy in the last fifty years. Williams’s powerful sceptical critique of the "morality system" sent shockwaves through philosophy, the implications of which are still being reckoned with thirty years later. In this outstanding collection of new essays, fourteen internationally-recognised philosophers examine the enduring contribution that Williams’s book continues to make to ethics. After a detailed topical summary of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Adrian Moore, the full scope of the work is assessed, including the role of Aristotle and Hume in Williams’ thought and his arguments concerning the history of philosophy; the nature of virtue, the good life, practical reason, and deliberation; and the themes of duty, blame and inauthenticity. Ethics Beyond the Limits is required reading for students and researchers in ethics, metaethics, and moral psychology, and highly recommended for anyone studying the work of Bernard Williams.
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Includes index

1. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

2. Lonely in Littlemore: confidence in Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

3. Hume's optimism and Williams's pessimism: from "Science of Man" to genealogical critique

4. Williams (on) doing history of philosophy: a case study on Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

5. The good life and the unity of the virtues: some reflections upon Williams on Aristotle

6. Humanism and cruelty in Williams

7. Duty, beauty, and booty: an essay in ethical reappropriation

8. Gauguin's lucky escape: moral luck and the morality system

9. The irrelativism of distance

10. Epoch relativism and our moral hopelessness

11. The inevitability of inauthenticity: Bernard Williams and practical alienation

12. How should one live? Williams on practical deliberation and reasons for acting

13. Practical deliberation and the first person

14. Moral authority and the limits of philosophy

Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely regarded as one of the most important works of moral philosophy in the last fifty years. Williams’s powerful sceptical critique of the "morality system" sent shockwaves through philosophy, the implications of which are still being reckoned with thirty years later. In this outstanding collection of new essays, fourteen internationally-recognised philosophers examine the enduring contribution that Williams’s book continues to make to ethics. After a detailed topical summary of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Adrian Moore, the full scope of the work is assessed, including the role of Aristotle and Hume in Williams’ thought and his arguments concerning the history of philosophy; the nature of virtue, the good life, practical reason, and deliberation; and the themes of duty, blame and inauthenticity. Ethics Beyond the Limits is required reading for students and researchers in ethics, metaethics, and moral psychology, and highly recommended for anyone studying the work of Bernard Williams.

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