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Theory with unstable referents -- Methodical approach -- Reflecting languages and symbols -- Paradigmatic lines and actor relationships -- Reconciling multiple knowledges -- Categorising and explaining as knowledge change -- Advocacy knowledge as political-legal intervention -- Final discussion -- Addendum.

"This book consists of two essays that are related to each other: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge" and "Moral Reality and Moral Progress." The longer second essay has not been previously published. Both are concerned with moral epistemology and our means of access to moral truth; both are concerned with moral realism and with the resistance to subjectivist and reductionist accounts of morality; and both are concerned with the historical development of moral knowledge. The second essay also proposes an account of the historical development of moral truth, according to which it does not share the timelessness of scientific truth. This is because moral truth must be based on reasons that are accessible to the individuals to whom they apply, and such accessibility depends on historical developments"--

Introduction / Gualtiero Lorini and Robert B. Louden -- Part I. Sources and Influences in Kant's Definition of the Knowledge Concerning the Human Being : Elucidations of the Sources of Kant's Anthropology / Holly L. Wilson -- Anthropology--A Legacy from Wolff to Kant? / Jean-François Goubet -- Anthropology from a Logical Point of View: The Role of Inner Sense from Jungius to Kant / Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero -- The Rules for Knowing the Human Being: Baumgarten's Presence in Kant's Anthropology / Gualtiero Lorini -- Kant on the Vocation and Formation of the Human Being / Ansgar Lyssy -- Part II. The Peculiatrities of Anthropological Knowledge in Kant: Metaphysics, Morals, Psychology, Politics : The Moral Dimensions of Kant's Anthropology / Robert B. Louden -- "Ein Spiel der Sinnlichkeit, durch den Verstand geordnet." Kant's Concept of Poetry and the Anthropological Revolution of Human Imagination / Fernando M. F. Silva -- Somatology: Notes on a Residual Science in Kant and the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Francesco Valerio Tommasi -- Controlling Mental Disorder: Kant's Account of Mental Illness in the Anthropology Writings / Nuria Sánchez Madrid -- Index

"The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology brings together philosophers, cognitive scientists, developmental and evolutionary psychologists, animal ethologists, intellectual historians and educators to provide the most comprehensive analysis of the prospects for moral knowledge ever assembled in print. The book's thirty chapters feature leading experts describing the nature of moral thought, its evolution, childhood development and neurological realization. Various forms of moral skepticism are addressed along with the historical development of ideals of moral knowledge and their role in law, education, legal policy, and other areas of social life. Highlights include: - Analyses of moral cognition and moral learning by leading cognitive scientists - Accounts of the normative practices of animals by expert animal ethologists - An overview of the evolution of cooperation by preeminent evolutionary psychologists - Sophisticated treatments of moral skepticism, relativism, moral uncertainty, and know-how by renowned philosophers - Scholarly accounts of the development of western moral thinking by eminent intellectual historians - Careful analyses of the role played by conceptions of moral knowledge in political liberation movements, religious institutions, criminal law, secondary education, and professional codes of ethics articulated by cutting-edge social and moral philosophers"--

A review of Theodor Adorno's 1963 lectures on Problems of Moral Philosophy highlights how he points out antinomies that invariably snare Kant's moral philosophy. Adorno believed moral action could only emerge from virtue but modern society has made virtue obsolete. The dilemma occurs because social conditions that make a type of moral reflection necessary also make moral action impossible. Both Adorno's moral-epistemological argument that applies to the formal characterization of moral knowledge that enables moral practice & his social-theoretical argument aimed at the formal characterization of moral knowledge are detailed. Special attention is given to common misunderstandings related to Adorno's conclusion about the social obsolescence of virtue. Other issues discussed include the reflective transformation of morality into the political brought about by the individual's loss of social power or freedom & Adorno's notion of an individualization of virtue & a radicalization of politics as the only two possible but incomplete solutions to the contradictions of moral philosophy. Adapted from the source document.

Preface -- Overview -- Introduction -- World-views, economic conduct, and social progress -- The authority of economic man -- The decline of economic man -- The moralization of economic affairs -- The dynamics of modern societies -- The virtues of market conduct -- Encircling the concept of the moralization of the markets -- The genealogy of markets: why do markets exist? -- The social origins of the market -- Liberty as the daughter of markets -- The loss of freedom through freedom -- Homo rationalis -- The competition among market conceptions -- The classical conception of the market -- The great transformation -- The neoclassical view of market behavior -- The unity of the market in its diversity -- The evolutionary perspective of the market -- The economy of love and fear -- Economies move societies -- Markets as sociocultural practices -- The critique and the practical usefulness of the standard model of the market -- Sociological perspectives -- The contradictory critique of the standard model of the market -- Social markets: five stipulations -- Explicating the five stipulations -- The foundations of the moralization of the markets -- Markets, biotechnology, and environment -- Biotechnology products -- Environment and markets -- Modernity and morality -- The civilization of capitalism -- The logic of modernity -- The knowledge-based modern economy -- The dawn of affluent societies -- Many are well off -- The poverty of affluence -- The advent of mass society -- The new dangers of prosperity -- Mass consumption -- The embedded consumer -- Knowledgeability and economic conduct -- Human capital -- Cultural capital -- Knowledge as a capacity to act -- Biotechnology, environment, and the market -- The commonalities of biotechnology and the environment -- The market for biotechnological processes and products -- The empirical evidence -- The environment and the market -- The empirical evidence -- The extension of the moral bases of economic conduct -- Economic growth and the moralization of the markets -- The globalization of the world -- Markets in an age of ecological and global modernization -- Conclusions and prospects -- Statistical appendix -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index

"Widespread disagreement about moral issues is a prominent aspect of contemporary pluralistic societies. Surveys indicate that in the United States opinion is split close to 50/50 on the morality of abortion, the death penalty, same-sex relationships, and physician-assisted suicide. It is also a subject with a long philosophical history, going back to Plato and Aristotle and drives contemporary debates about moral relativism, scepticism and objectivity. Should we be concerned about the extent of moral disagreement? What causes it? What are the onsequence of moral disagreement? In this thorough and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of moral disagreement and its philosophical and political implications Richard Rowland examines and assesses the following topics and questions: Relativism and moral disagreement Moral realism Peer disagreement, moral knowledge and the problem of conciliationism Non-cognitivism and moral disagreement Moral uncertainty Moral disagreement and coercion New directions. Combining clear philosophical analysis with summaries of the latest research and including chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary, Moral Disagreement is ideal for students of ethics, metaethics and political philosophy as well as philosophical topics that are closely related such as relativism, scepticism and objectivity. It will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as political philosophy, ethics and public policy and philosophy of law"

"By explicitly addressing moral knowledge from a particularists perspective, this book can engage with an established and vibrant area of moral philosophy whilst making a distinctive and productive contribution to a relatively neglected dimension of it"--