Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered: Phenomenological Ethics

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• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 211
• Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in the world. The main thesis is that, before any reference to values or to criteria about good and evil—that is, before any reference to specific ethical outlooks—one should explain the very materiality of what necessarily constitutes the ‘moral world’. These claims are substantiated by means of a text- centered interpretation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in dialogue with contemporary moral realism. The book concludes with a critique of Heidegger’s, Gadamer’s and Arendt’s approaches to Aristotle’s ethics.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Aristotle’s Moral Realism Reconsidered: Phenomenological Ethics
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Aristotle and Kant: Actions within the Moral World
1 Action, prakton and Visibility
2 Phronetic Perception
3 Aristotelian Constructivism
4 Kant: Action, the Good and their Common Categories
Part II Phenomenological Voices and their Dissonances
5 Towards a Phenomenological Moral Realism
6 Heidegger on Aristotle’s and Kant’s Ethics
7 Gadamer and Practical Rationality
8 Arendt on Action and Performances
Conclusion: The Many Faces of Moral Realism
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Index of Passages