On the Conceptual Autonomy of Morality

The Logic of Autonomy: Law, Morality and

📁 The Logic of Autonomy: Law, Morality and Autonomous Reasoning

✍ Jan R. Sieckmann 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Hart Publishing 🌐 English

Autonomy is the central idea of modern practical philosophy. Understood as self-legislation, autonomy seems to require that the validity of norms depends on recognition, namely, that their addressees, being autonomous agents, recognise these norms to be valid. But how can one be bound by norms whose

The Logic of Autonomy: Law, Morality and

📁 The Logic of Autonomy: Law, Morality and Autonomous Reasoning

✍ Jan-R Sieckmann 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Hart Publishing 🌐 English

Autonomy is the central idea of modern practical philosophy. Understood as self-legislation, autonomy seems to require that the validity of norms depends on recognition, namely, that their addressees, being autonomous agents, recognize these norms to be valid. But, how can one be bound by norms whos

Kant on Moral Autonomy

📁 Kant on Moral Autonomy

✍ Oliver Sensen (ed.) 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

The concept of autonomy is one of Kant's central legacies for contemporary moral thought. We often invoke autonomy as both a moral ideal and a human right, especially a right to determine oneself independently of foreign determinants; indeed, to violate a person's autonomy is considered to be a seri

Moral Articulation: On the Development o

📁 Moral Articulation: On the Development of New Moral Concepts

✍ Matthew Congdon 📂 Library 📅 2024 🌐 English

"This book explores the historical development of new moral concepts, an activity the author labels "moral articulation." Starting from examples of new moral language developed in the twentieth century, like 'sexual harassment', 'genocide', 'racism', and 'hate speech', this book asks: are we simply

Moral Articulation: On the Development o

📁 Moral Articulation: On the Development of New Moral Concepts

✍ Matthew Congdon 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

<span>This book explores the historical development of new moral concepts. Starting from examples of new moral terms invented in the twentieth century, like 'sexual harassment', 'genocide', 'racism', and 'hate speech', this book asks: what we are doing when we bring ethically significant acts and ev

The Autonomy of Morality

📁 The Autonomy of Morality

✍ Charles Larmore 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

In The Autonomy of Morality, Charles Larmore challenges two ideas that have shaped the modern mind. The world, he argues, is not a realm of value-neutral fact, nor is reason our capacity to impose principles of our own devising on an alien reality. Rather, reason consists in being responsive to reas