Comparative Metaethics

Neglected Perspectives on the Foundations of Morality
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-08797-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

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 Kitaro, 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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marshall, Colin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Colin Marshall

Part 1: Moral Metaphysics

1. The Metaethics of Maat

Kevin DeLapp

2. The Groundedness of Normativity or Indigenous Normativity through the Land

Brian Yazzie Burkhart

3. The Nature of Mexica Ethics

James Maffie

4. Etemeyaske Vpokat (Living Together Peacefully): How the Muscogee Concept of Harmony Can Provide a Structure to Morality

Joseph Len Miller

5. Species and the Good in Anne Conway’s Metaethics

John Grey

6. The Art of Convention: An Aesthetic Defense of Confucian Ritual

Irene Liu

7. Matilal’s Metaethics

Nicolas Bommarito and Alex King

Part 2: Moral Experience

8. Goblet Words and Moral Knack: Non-Cognitivist Moral Realism in the Zhuangzi?

Christopher Kirby

9. Constructing Morality with Mengzi: Three Lessons on the Metaethics of Moral Progress

Jing Hu and Seth Robertson

10. Nishida Kitaro’s Koiteki Chokkan: Active Intuition and Contemporary Metaethics

Laura Specker Sullivan

11. Augusto Salazar Bondy’s Philosophy of Value

Clark Donley

12. Sontag on Impertinent Sympathy and Photographs of Evil

Sean T. Murphy

Über Autor(innen)

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).