The Sources of Normativity

Christine M. Korsgaard (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

ISBN 10: 052155960X / ISBN 13: 9780521559607

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, Cambridge, 1996

Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. Or at least when we invoke them, we make claims on one another; but where does their authority over us - or ours over one another - come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral philosophers: voluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and the appeal to autonomy. She traces their history, showing how each developed in response to the prior one and comparing their early versions with those on the contemporary philosophical scene. Kant's theory that normativity springs from our own autonomy emerges as a synthesis of the other three, and Korsgaard concludes with her own version of the Kantian account. Her discussion is followed by commentary from G. A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss, Thomas Nagel, and Bernard Williams, and a reply by Korsgaard. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR002205759

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Korsgaard's discussion of the source of normativity is followed by commentary from four distinguished philosophers.

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Titel: The Sources of Normativity
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, Cambridge
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good