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Articulating the Moral Community: Toward a Constructive Ethical Pragmatism

Henry S. Richardson

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Description:Is morality fixed objectively, independently of all human judgment, or do we invent right and wrong? Articulating the Moral Community argues that neither of these simple answers is correct. Its central thesis is that, working within zones of objective indeterminacy, the moral community-thecommunity of all persons-has the authority to introduce new moral norms.Unlike political communities, which are centralized, non-inclusive, and backed by coercion, the moral community is decentralized, inclusive, and not coercively backed. This book explains in detail how its structure arises from efforts by individuals to work out intelligently with one another how torespond to morally important concerns. Developing a novel theory of dyadic rights and duties based on this phenomenon, the book argues that conscientious efforts of this kind provide moral input, authoritative only over the parties involved. After sufficient uptake and reflective acceptance by themoral community, however, these innovations become new moral norms.This account of the moral community's moral authority is motivated by, and supports, a type of normative ethical theory, constructive ethical pragmatism, which-to use an unfashionable distinction defended in the book-rejects the consequentialist claim that rightness is to be defined as a function ofgoodness and the deontological claim that principles of right stand fixed, independently of the good. It holds, rather, that what we ought to do depends on our continuing efforts to specify the right and the good in light of each other.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Articulating the Moral Community: Toward a Constructive Ethical Pragmatism. To get started finding Articulating the Moral Community: Toward a Constructive Ethical Pragmatism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Is morality fixed objectively, independently of all human judgment, or do we invent right and wrong? Articulating the Moral Community argues that neither of these simple answers is correct. Its central thesis is that, working within zones of objective indeterminacy, the moral community-thecommunity of all persons-has the authority to introduce new moral norms.Unlike political communities, which are centralized, non-inclusive, and backed by coercion, the moral community is decentralized, inclusive, and not coercively backed. This book explains in detail how its structure arises from efforts by individuals to work out intelligently with one another how torespond to morally important concerns. Developing a novel theory of dyadic rights and duties based on this phenomenon, the book argues that conscientious efforts of this kind provide moral input, authoritative only over the parties involved. After sufficient uptake and reflective acceptance by themoral community, however, these innovations become new moral norms.This account of the moral community's moral authority is motivated by, and supports, a type of normative ethical theory, constructive ethical pragmatism, which-to use an unfashionable distinction defended in the book-rejects the consequentialist claim that rightness is to be defined as a function ofgoodness and the deontological claim that principles of right stand fixed, independently of the good. It holds, rather, that what we ought to do depends on our continuing efforts to specify the right and the good in light of each other.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Articulating the Moral Community: Toward a Constructive Ethical Pragmatism. To get started finding Articulating the Moral Community: Toward a Constructive Ethical Pragmatism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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