Fellow-feeling and the moral life
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Fellow-feeling and the moral life
Produced by Amazon, 2014, c2008
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"First published 2008. First paperback edition 2014" -- T. p. verso
Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index
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Description
How do our feelings for others shape our attitudes and conduct towards them? Is morality primarily a matter of rational choice, or instinctual feeling? Joseph Duke Filonowicz takes the reader on an engaging, informative tour of some of the main issues in philosophical ethics, explaining and defending the ideas of the early-modern British sentimentalists. These philosophers - Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith - argued that it is our feelings, and not our 'reason', which ultimately determine how we judge what is good or bad, right or wrong, and how we choose to act towards our fellow human beings. Filonowicz draws on contemporary sociology and evolutionary biology as well as present-day moral theory to examine and defend the sentimentalist view and to challenge the rationalistic character of contemporary ethics. His book will appeal to readers interested in both the history of philosophy and current ethical debates.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Fellow-feeling and ethical theory: the British sentimentalists
- 2. Ethical sentimentalism revisited
- 3. Shaftesbury's ethical system
- 4. Hutcheson's moral sense
- 5. What do we perceive by moral sense?
- 6. C. D. Broad's defence of moral sense theories in ethics
- 7. What is innate moral sense?
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