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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: birth of ethics
    sub title: reconstructing the role and nature of morality
  name:
    name part: Pettit, Philip
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Hoekstra, Kinch
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: To know the nature of any phenomenon or practice, it is often a good idea to learn about how it might have emerged or might have been constructed. The Birth of Ethics offers an account of how morality might have emerged, without any planning, in a society with language but without any properly ethical concepts or practices. The conjectural history that it documents serves a philosophical purpose, for it directs us the role that morality plays in human life and the nature of morality that enables it to play that role.
  table of contents: Editor's Introduction: The View from Erewhon; Introduction: The Guiding Ideas; The Birth of Ethics; Chapter 1: Reconstructing Morality; 1.1 Reconstructing ethics naturalistically; 1.2 Conditions on a successful reconstruction; 1.3 Reconstructive analysis illustrated; Chapter 2: Ground Zero; 2.1 On what is necessarily present; 2.2 On what is saliently absent; 2.3 Excuses and exemptions; Chapter 3: Committing to Others; 3.1 The avowal of belief; 3.2 The avowal of desire and intention; 3.3 The pledging of intention; Chapter 4: Committing with Others4.1 The means of co-​avowing attitudes; 4.2 The conversational need to co-​avow; 4.3 The confidence co-​avowal requires; 4.4 Bounded and unbounded co-​avowal; 4.5 Co-​avowing and co-​pledging intentions; Chapter 5: Discovering Desirability; 5.1 Desirability characterized; 5.2 The view from within avowal; 5.3 The view from within co-​avowal; 5.4 A breakthrough and a shortfall; 5.5 Toward the morally desirable; Chapter 6: Discovering Responsibility; 6.1 Responsibility characterized; 6.2 Recognition, exhortation, reprimand; 6.3 Theories of responsibility; Chapter 7: Morality Reconstructed; 7.1 Moral metaphysics; 7.2 Moral semantics; 7.3 Moral epistemology; 7.4 Expanding moral concepts; 7.5 Moral psychology; 7.6 Moral theory; Conclusion: The Claims in Summary; Comments; Commentary on Philip Pettit's The Birth of Ethics; Reply; Reply to Michael Tomasello's Commentary; References.
  note: Philip Pettit ; edited by Kinch Hoekstra.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Morale
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: 08.38 ethics
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Social
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Ethik
  classification: BJ71 .P46 2018eb
  classification: 170.9
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 181009
    record change date: 20260319180125.7
    record identifier: in00005716513
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng