The Autonomy of Morality

by Charles Larmore

• ISBN13: 9780521889131
• ISBN10: 0521889138
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780511426605
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

In The Autonomy of Morality Charles Larmore challenges two ideas that have shaped the modern mind. The world, he argues, is not a realm of value-neutral fact, nor does human freedom consist in imposing principles of our own devising on an alien reality. Rather, reason consists in being responsive to reasons for thought and action that arise from the world itself. Larmore shows that the moral good has an authority that speaks for itself. Only in this light does the true basis of a liberal political order come into view, as well as the role of unexpected goods in the makeup of a life lived well.

Table of Contents

Reason and Reasons

History and truth

Back to Kant? No way

Attending to reasons

The Moral Point of View

John Rawls and moral philosophy

The autonomy of morality

Political Principles

The moral basis of political liberalism

The meanings of political freedom

Public reason

Truth and Chance

Nietzsche and the will to truth

The idea of a life plan

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