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Informationen zum Autor Philip Stratton-Lake is Lecturer in Philosophy at Reading University. Klappentext Ethical intuitionists believe that there is an irreducible plurality of basic moral principles! that these principles are self-evident! and that rightness and goodness are indefinable properties that cannot be understood in wholly naturalistic terms. In this collection! leading moral philosophers consider how these views are to be understood! and what implications they have for our understanding of morality. Zusammenfassung Ethical Intuitionism was the dominant moral theory in Britain for much of the eighteenth and nineteenth and the first third of the twentieth century. However, during the middle decades of the twentieth century ethical intuitionism came to be regarded as utterly untenable. It was thought to be either empty, or metaphysically and epistemologically extravagant, or both. This hostility led to a neglect of the central intuitionist texts, and encouraged the growth of a caricature of intuitionism that could easily be rejected before moving on to 'more serious' philosophical theories. More recently, however, this hostility towards ethical intuitionism has subsided. A wide range of moral philosophers, from Aristotelians, to rule-consequentialists, to expressivists, Kantians, and deontologists, are beginning to look to the ethical intuitionists' work as a positive resource. It is, therefore, a good time to get clear on what it was that intuitionists said, and re-evaluate their contribution to our understanding of morality. This volume is the first serious engagement with ethical intuitionism in the light of more recent developments in ethical theory. It contains essays by eminent moral philosophers working in very different traditions whose aim is to clarify and assess ethical intuitionism. Issues addressed include whether the plurality of basic principles intuitionists adhere to can be grounded in some more fundamental principle; the autonomy of ethics and self-evidence; moral realism and internalism; and the open question argument and naturalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Robert Audi: Prospects for a Value-Based Intuitionism 2: Roger Crisp: Sidgwick and Intuitionism 3: David McNaughton: An Unconnected Heap of Duties? 4: Tom Baldwin: The Three Phases of Intuitionism 5: Philip Stratton-Lake: Pleasure and Reflection in Ross 6: Berys Gaut: Justifying Moral Pluralism 7: Brad Hooker: Intuitions and Moral Theorizing 8: Nicholas Sturgeon: Ethical Intuitionism, Ethical Naturalism 9: Allan Gibbard: Knowing What to Do, Seeing What to Do 10: Jonathan Dancy: Prichard on Duty and Ignorance of Fact 11: Stephen Darwall: Intuitionism and the Motivation Problem 12: Robert Arrington: A Wittgensteinian Approach Bibliography, Index ...
