Charles Larmore
Biographic Data
| ID | 143769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Larmore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Larmore |
| SIGNATURE | LARMORE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Self‐knowledge and the self
As several historical examples are adduced to show, different theories of self‐knowledge take shape in response to different conceptions of the sort of beings we are. This leads to the question of what underlying notion of the self motivates, in particular, the dominant modern idea that self‐knowledge consists primarily in grasping whatever beliefs, desires, thoughts, and feelings make up our mental life. The answer is that the self‐constitutive …
What Is Political Philosophy?
What is political philosophy? What are its fundamental problems? And how should it be distinguished from moral philosophy? This book redefines the distinctive aims of political philosophy, reformulating in this light the basis of a liberal understanding of politics. Because political life is characterized by deep and enduring conflict between rival interests and differing moral ideals, the core problems of political philosophy are the regulation …
What Is Political Philosophy
What is political philosophy? What are its fundamental problems? And how should it be distinguished from moral philosophy? This book redefines the distinctive aims of political philosophy, reformulating in this light the basis of a liberal understanding of politics. Because political life is characterized by deep and enduring conflict between rival interests and differing moral ideals, the core problems of political philosophy are the regulation …
Que faut-il pour être soi-même
Politics Recovered: Realist Thought in Theory and Practice
Politics Recovered brings together prominent scholars to develop the idea of what it might mean to theorize politics “realistically.” By exploring the nature, distinctiveness, and prospects of realist thought, it shows how political theory can provide meaningful and compelling answers to the fundamental questions of political life.
The Moral Basis of Political Liberalism
In Political Liberalism, Rawls declares that a political conception is freestanding, if it looks only to the principles that should govern the political life of society. Historical experience provides the impetus for liberalism to shed its individualist philosophy. Rawls remarks that liberalism seeks the form of a freestanding political ideal, because it "applies the principle of toleration to philosophy itself". Liberalism, formulated as a stric…
Political Liberalism
Political liberalism seeks to define the principles of political association in terms that are independent, not only of religious convictions and substantive notions of the human good, but also of the individualist ideals, encouraging a self-critical attitude toward the conception of the good one espouses, to which the classical liberalism of Locke, Kant, and Mill typically appealed. This chapter explores the basic problem of political life to wh…
What Is Political Philosophy?
What is political philosophy’s relation to moral philosophy? Does it simply form part of moral philosophy, focusing on the proper application of certain moral truths to political reality? Or must it instead form a more autonomous discipline, drawing its bearings from the specifically political problem of determining the bounds of legitimate coercion? In this essay I work out an answer to these questions by examining both some of the classical vie…
Kant and the Meanings of Autonomy
The holes in holism
The Autonomy of Morality
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 t…
L'éthique à sa place
Alessandro Ferrara’s theory of authenticity
History & truth
Liberal and republican conceptions of freedom
Freedom has a number of different senses. One of them is the absence of domination, which neo-republican thinkers have helped us to understand better. This notion of freedom does not, however, provide an alternative to political liberalism, since its proper articulation depends on distinctly liberal principles
Back to Kant? No Way
Public Reason
For John Rawls, public reason is not one political value among others. It envelops all the different elements that make up the ideal of a constitutional democracy, for it governs "the political relation" in which we ought to stand to one another as citizens (CP, p. 574). Public reason involves more than just the idea that the principles of political association should be an object of public knowledge. Its concern is the very basis of our collecti…
The Cambridge Companion to Rawls
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. John Rawls is the most significant and influential philosopher and moral philosopher of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly shaped contemporary discussions of social, political and economic justice in philosophy, law, political scie…
The Morals of Modernity
The Moral Basis of Political Liberalism
Soulignant la proximite des conceptions libertaire et autonomiste de la vie politique chez Habermas et Rawls, l'A. montre que les deux philosophes negligent de la meme facon la question du fondement moral de la politique. Mesurant la possibilite d'un accord raisonnable concernant l'organisation de la vie politique en fonction de principes liberaux, l'A. montre que cet engagement constitue le centre moral de la pensee liberale et qu'il incarne le …
The Morals of Modernity
Political Liberalism
The business of laws is not to provide for the truth of opinions, but for the safety and security of the commonwealth, and of every particular man's goods and person.John Locke
The Morals of Modernity
The essays collected in this volume all explore the problem of the relation between moral philosophy and modernity. Charles Larmore addresses this problem by attempting to define the way distinctive forms of modern experience should orientate our moral thinking. Charles Larmore wonders whether the dominant forms of modern philosophy have not become blind to important dimensions of the moral life. The book argues against recent attempts to return …
Political Liberalism
The business of laws is not to provide for the truth of opinions, but for the safety and security of the commonwealth, and of every particular man's goods and person. John Locke
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
Political Liberalism
The business of laws is not to provide for the truth of opinions, but for the safety and security of the commonwealth, and of every particular man's goods and person. John Locke
The Differentiation of Society
A collection of Niklas Luhmann's essays on the theory of modern society translated from German to English. Specifically includes essays on relevant theories of sociologists Durkeim and Parsons, social systems such as politics and economy, systems theory, evolutionary theory, communication theory, and others
Liberal and republican conceptions of freedom
Freedom has a number of different senses. One of them is the absence of domination, which neo-republican thinkers have helped us to understand better. This notion of freedom does not, however, provide an alternative to political liberalism, since its proper articulation depends on distinctly liberal principles
Back to Kant? No Way
History & truth
The Morals of Modernity
Liberal Neutrality: A Reply to James Fishkin
The Differentiation of Society
A collection of Niklas Luhmann's essays on the theory of modern society translated from German to English. Specifically includes essays on relevant theories of sociologists Durkeim and Parsons, social systems such as politics and economy, systems theory, evolutionary theory, communication theory, and others
Luhmann in English
Sur La Theologie Blanche de Descartes.
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis
La critique newtonienne de la méthode cartésienne
Charles Larmore : Newton's criticism of Cartesian method. Newton's statement " hypotheses non fingo " has often been wrongly taken as an expression of dogmatism, and thus as an indication that his Cartesian opponents had a more acceptable, corrigibilist view of scientific method. In this article I try to show that the Cartesians were the real dogmatists, because of their a priori claim that all action of one body on another must be mechanical. Ne…
Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas. Martin Jay
Patterns of Moral Complexity
Larmore aims to recover three forms of moral complexity that have often been neglected by moral and political philosophers. First, he argues that virtue is not simply the conscientious adherence to principle. Rather, the exercise of virtue apply. He argues - and this is the second pattern of complexity - that recognizing the value of constitutive ties with shared forms of life does not undermine the liberal ideal of political neutrality toward di…
Newton’s Critique of Cartesian Method
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
Self-Consciousness and Self-Determination
This book seeks to clarify the precise structure of self-consciousness and self-determination and elucidates their significance for our philosophical understanding of self-knowledge and human agency. The analysis challenges traditional models of theoretical self-knowledge and practical self-relation and elaborates an account of rationally grounded responsibility that jointly fulfills the demands of autonomy and authenticity.Tugendhat's study is a…
Liberal Neutrality: A Reply to James Fishkin
Political Liberalism
The business of laws is not to provide for the truth of opinions, but for the safety and security of the commonwealth, and of every particular man's goods and person. John Locke
Political Liberalism
The business of laws is not to provide for the truth of opinions, but for the safety and security of the commonwealth, and of every particular man's goods and person.John Locke
The Morals of Modernity
The essays collected in this volume all explore the problem of the relation between moral philosophy and modernity. Charles Larmore addresses this problem by attempting to define the way distinctive forms of modern experience should orientate our moral thinking. Charles Larmore wonders whether the dominant forms of modern philosophy have not become blind to important dimensions of the moral life. The book argues against recent attempts to return …
The Morals of Modernity
The Moral Basis of Political Liberalism
Soulignant la proximite des conceptions libertaire et autonomiste de la vie politique chez Habermas et Rawls, l'A. montre que les deux philosophes negligent de la meme facon la question du fondement moral de la politique. Mesurant la possibilite d'un accord raisonnable concernant l'organisation de la vie politique en fonction de principes liberaux, l'A. montre que cet engagement constitue le centre moral de la pensee liberale et qu'il incarne le …
The Morals of Modernity
Public Reason
For John Rawls, public reason is not one political value among others. It envelops all the different elements that make up the ideal of a constitutional democracy, for it governs "the political relation" in which we ought to stand to one another as citizens (CP, p. 574). Public reason involves more than just the idea that the principles of political association should be an object of public knowledge. Its concern is the very basis of our collecti…
The Cambridge Companion to Rawls
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. John Rawls is the most significant and influential philosopher and moral philosopher of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly shaped contemporary discussions of social, political and economic justice in philosophy, law, political scie…
Liberal and republican conceptions of freedom
Freedom has a number of different senses. One of them is the absence of domination, which neo-republican thinkers have helped us to understand better. This notion of freedom does not, however, provide an alternative to political liberalism, since its proper articulation depends on distinctly liberal principles
Back to Kant? No Way
Alessandro Ferrara’s theory of authenticity
History & truth
L'éthique à sa place
The Autonomy of Morality
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 t…
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