In this collection of essays, the author passes to and fro between problems of ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind and philosophy of logic and language. Conspicious among the various problems attempted is the controversial question of cognitivism in ethics. From the many projects and themes that run through the essays the following emerge most prominently: the elucidation of the ideas of truth, objectivity, subjectivity and intersubjectivity; the scope and limits of the attribution of the status of plain truth among the judgements of morals, politics and aesthetics; the part played in the fixation of the sense of evaluative language by the antecedent possibility of agreement in judgements and in sentiments; the irreplaceability and irreducibility for practical or valuational thinking of such ideas as those of need, self and metaphysical freedom. The collection comprises ten pieces altogether, including a new Postscript and three previously unpublished essays. Essays already published have been edited and revised, and in some cases extended.
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1. It has been felt for a long time that there must be some intimate connection between the needs of human beings and their abstract rights. H.L.A. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
phase two justice, valuational predicates, cognitive underdetermination, particular practical judgments, aggregative reasoning, mental connectedness, moral cognitivism, mutual irreducibility, essential contestability, incontinent man, descriptive anthropology, declarative meaning, entitlement relations, inner view, limitation principle, practical syllogism, more hogs, outer view, physical determinism, shared sensibility, inner perspective Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, Bernard Williams, Cambridge University Press, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Journal of Philosophy, Donald Davidson, Philosophical Review, Supplementary Volume, Aurel Kolnai, David Wiggins, Richard Taylor, Captain Vere, John Mackie, New York, Principles of Morals, Bertrand Russell, Gilbert Harman, Kegan Paul, Martha Nussbaum, Philosophical Quarterly, Principle of Equal Interests, Proceedings of the British Academy, Thomas Nagel, Del Vecchio, Midwest Studies New!
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phase two justice, valuational predicates, cognitive underdetermination, particular practical judgments, aggregative reasoning, mental connectedness, moral cognitivism, mutual irreducibility, essential contestability, incontinent man, descriptive anthropology, declarative meaning, entitlement relations, inner view, limitation principle, practical syllogism, more hogs, outer view, physical determinism, shared sensibility, inner perspective Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, Bernard Williams, Cambridge University Press, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Journal of Philosophy, Donald Davidson, Philosophical Review, Supplementary Volume, Aurel Kolnai, David Wiggins, Richard Taylor, Captain Vere, John Mackie, New York, Principles of Morals, Bertrand Russell, Gilbert Harman, Kegan Paul, Martha Nussbaum, Philosophical Quarterly, Principle of Equal Interests, Proceedings of the British Academy, Thomas Nagel, Del Vecchio, Midwest Studies New!
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- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 10 pages
- Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on page 68, page 154, and page 382
- Mysticism and Logic (Dover Books on Western Philosophy) by Bertrand Russell on page 278, and page 371
- Moral Concepts (Readings in Philosophy) by J. Feinberg on page 233, and page 241
- Social Philosophy by Joel Feinberg on page 7, and page 10
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