No Morality, No Self : : Anscombe’s Radical Skepticism / / James Doyle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Doyle, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Julkaisuvuosi: 2018
• Kieli: English
• Ulkoasu: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; PART ONE: No Morality: “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958) --; 1. Virtue Ethics, Eudaimonism, and the Greeks --; 2. The Invention of “ Morality” and the Possibility of Consequentialism --; 3. The Misguided Project of Vindicating Morality --; 4. The Futility of Seeking the Extension of a Word with No Intension --; 5. What’s Really Wrong with the Vocabulary of Morality? --; 6. Assessing “Modern Moral Philosophy” --; PART TWO: No Self: “The First Person” (1975) --; 7. The Circularity Problem for Accounts of “I” as a Device of Self-Reference --; 8. Is the Fundamental Reference Rule for “I” the Key to Explaining First-Person Self-Reference? --; 9. Rumfitt’s Solution to the Circularity Problem --; 10. Can We Make Sense of a Nonreferential Account of “I”? --; 11. Strategies for Saving “I” as a Singular Term: Domesticating FP and Deflating Reference --; Epilogue: The Anti-Cartesian Basis of Anscombe’s Skepticism --; APPENDIX A. Aquinas and Natural Law --; APPENDIX B. Stoic Ethics: A Law Conception without Commandments? --; Notes --; References --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Yhteenveto: Elizabeth Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy” and “The First Person” have become touchstones of analytic philosophy but their significance remains controversial or misunderstood. James Doyle offers a fresh interpretation of Anscombe’s theses about ethical reasoning and individual identity that reconciles seemingly incompatible points of view.
• Aineistotyyppi: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674982819; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674982819
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Elizabeth Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy” and “The First Person” have become touchstones of analytic philosophy but their significance remains controversial or misunderstood. James Doyle offers a fresh interpretation of Anscombe’s theses about ethical reasoning and individual identity that reco...