This book propounds a theory of reason and a theory of morality, advanced by Professor Baier in his APA presidential address and his Carus Lectures. Our possession of reason and our ability to reason depend on our having grown up in a rational order: a social order which engages in the enterprise of reason and, through socialisation, passes on from one generation to the next the knowledge of the recognised general principles of reasoning, the ability to apply them to particular cases, and the methods for further improvement. Two kinds of practical reason can be distinguished, the "self-anchored" and the "society-anchored", the second being by its nature paramount over the first. Much of this is also true of morality because, Baier argues in detail, the moral enterprise is the same as that of society-anchored reason. "The Rational and the Moral Order" sets out original arguments for a number of controversial claims. Moral directives imply that they are themselves sound, and therefore pass a certain test, and can be said to be true or false. Purported conceptions of morality are genuine only if they construe moral judgements as capable of being sound or unsound. Sound moralities are society-relative, and it can be shown that sound moral reasons are always paramount over reasons of self-interest.
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coordinative guidelines, greater defeating force, internally unflawed, dispositive reason, constative fact, simplifying supposition, pro tanto reason, corrective sanctions, directive reasons, role endowments, anchored reasons, tanto reasons, accordance with reason, requiring reason, letting die, exculpatory explanation, moral enterprise, reflective task, mandatory level, overall inclination, twelve edges, motivating beliefs, cognitive reasons, someone justice, motivating facts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Is reason a faculty like sight enabling us to become aware of or know things, and, if so, what things? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coordinative guidelines, greater defeating force, internally unflawed, dispositive reason, constative fact, simplifying supposition, pro tanto reason, corrective sanctions, directive reasons, role endowments, anchored reasons, tanto reasons, accordance with reason, requiring reason, letting die, exculpatory explanation, moral enterprise, reflective task, mandatory level, overall inclination, twelve edges, motivating beliefs, cognitive reasons, someone justice, motivating facts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, Pure Custom, New York, Book Two, Divine Command Theory, Cambridge University Press, Ethical Egoism, Harvard University Press, Principled Rational Egoists, Book One, Problem of General Egoism, Sufficient Success Condition, Clarendon Press, Limited Egoists, Englewood Cliffs, Enlightened Egoist, Right of Nature, Egoistic Hedonism, Good Samaritan, Joel Feinberg, Philippa Foot, System of Hypothetical Imperatives, The Possibility of Altruism, The Realm of Rights, Bernard Williams New!
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- The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law Series) by H. L. A. Hart on 6 pages
- Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on 5 pages
- Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick on 5 pages
- The Realm of Rights by Judith Jarvis Thomson on 5 pages
- Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin on 4 pages
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- Reasons for Action: Toward a Normative Theory and Meta-Level Criteria (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy) by B.C. Postow on page 53, page 56, and Back Matter
- Preferences (Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy, Bd 19) by Christoph Fehige on page 8, and page 22
- Changing Public Sector Values (Garland Reference Library of Social Science) by Montgomery Van Wart on page 227
- Contemporary Theories of Liberalism: Public Reason as a Post-Enlightenment Project (SAGE Politics Texts series) by Gerald F Gaus on page 115
- The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science by Taner Edis on page 303
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