Moral Sentimentalism
ISBN: 9780199975709 | 0199975701
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/1/2013
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There has recently been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in metaethical questions about the meaning of moral terms or in normative issues about benevolence and/or caring and their place in morality. In Moral Sentimentalism Michael Slote attempts to deal with both sorts of issues and to do so, primarily, in terms of the notion or phenomenon of empathy. Hume sought to do something like this over two centuries ago, though he didn't have the term "empathy" and used "sympathy" ins... MORE
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Empathy: Cement of the Moral Universe
2. Moral Approval and Disapproval
3. Empathy in Moral Judgment
4. A New Kind of Reference-Fixing
5. How to Derive "Ought" from "Is"
6. The Use of Moral Judgments
7. Between Motive and Morality
8. Paternalism and Patriarchy
9. Justice
10. Empathy, Objectivity, and Rationality
Conclusion
Index
Michael Slote is UST Professor of Ethics at the University of Miami, and the author of Morals from Motives, (Oxford University Press 2007).
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