Intuitionism

✍ Scribed by Kaspar, David

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Series: Bloomsbury Ethics;Continuum Ethics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Is the way to moral truth through theory? Or do we already know what?s right and wrong? Throughout modern history philosophers have tried to construct elaborate moral systems to determine what?s right. Recently, however, some have revived the position that we have intuitive knowledge of right and wrong. In this book, David Kaspar introduces and explores the perspective known as?Intuitionism?. Charting intuitionism?s fall in the twentieth century and its recent resurgence, Kaspar looks at the intuitionist approach to the most important topics in ethics, from moral knowledge to intrinsically go. Read more...

Abstract:

Introduces, explores and defends the resurgent school of intuitionism in ethics - the idea that we intuitively know what's right and wrong. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
HalfTitle
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The search for a supreme principle
We know what's right
The approach of intuitionism
Overview
1 Thinking about morality
Introduction
Moral beliefs and intuitionism
Methods of intuitionism
The first data of ethics
Assumptions to avoid
Divisions in moral theory
Intuitionism
Morality in action
Commonsense morality?
Persistent data
Prejudices and social support
Chapter summary
2 The story of contemporary intuitionism
Introduction
Prichard's point
Ross's intuitionism. The downfall of early analytic intuitionismStrawson's case against intuitionism
General trends against intuitionism
The power of intuition
Methods of ethics
Audi's insight
Moral disagreement
Chapter summary
3 Moral knowledge
Introduction
Empiricism and rationalism
Self-evidence explained
Moral proofs
Justification structures
Epistemic appraisal
Intuitions
Skepticism about intuitions
Self-evidence, mathematics, and morality
Mere truisms?
Synthetic a priori truths
You know what's right
Chapter summary
4 New challenges to intuitionism
Introduction. Where in the world is morality?Moral skepticism and moral nihilism
Responding to moral nihilism
Naturalism and nonnaturalism
Supervenience problems
Supervenience solutions
Expert disagreement
Intuitionism and disagreement
Chapter summary
5 The grounds of morality
Introduction
Moral explanation
Moral relations
Properties of moral relations
Transactions
Moral kinds
Promises
Variations of conditions for promises
Understanding and a priori knowledge
The metaphysical status of moral kinds
The convention objection
Chapter summary
6 The right and the good reconsidered. IntroductionWhat's wrong with deontology
Intuitionists against intrinsically good action
Prichard's case for intrinsically good action
Ross's case for intrinsically good action
Good and right
Good and kind
Ought
Possible moral facts
Particular moral facts
Explaining supervenience
Chapter summary
7 Intuitionism's rivals
Introduction
Moral knowledge and normative ethics
Supreme principles of morality
Kantianism
New Kantianism
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism and action-guidance
Utilitarianism and moral explanation
Virtue ethics
Criteria of right action. The incorporation projectChapter summary
8 Practical and ultimate moral issues
Introduction
Which principles?
Moral decisions
Moral risk
Between thought and action
The prudence dependency thesis
Moral knowledge again
The motivation problem
The ultimate issues
Chapter summary
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index.

✦ Subjects

Ethical intuitionism. Ethics. Intuition. PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.