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Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress

By Thomas Nagel

Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress

By Thomas Nagel

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This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge" and "Moral Reality and Moral Progress." Both essays are concerned with moral epistemology and our means of access to moral truth; both are concerned with moral realism and with the resistance to subjectivist and reductionist accounts of morality; and both are concerned with the historical development of moral knowledge. The second essay also proposes an account of the historical development of moral truth, according to which it does not share the timelessness of scientific truth. This is because moral truth must be based on reasons that are accessible to the individuals to whom they apply, and such accessibility depends on historical developments. The result is that only some advances in moral knowledge are discoveries of what has been true all along.
Product details
Number of Pages:
71
Release Date:
2023-12-06
Publication Date:
2023-11-16
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0197690882
ISBN13:
9780197690888
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
172 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
182 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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