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reconstructing the role and nature of morality
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.
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.
Philip Pettit ; edited by Kinch Hoekstra.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]