Marcel Van Ackeren
Biographic Data
| ID | 4163705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcel Van Ackeren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcel |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Ackeren |
| SIGNATURE | VAN ACKEREN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mansfield University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethics Beyond the Limits
Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely regarded as one of the most important works of moral philosophy in the last fifty years. Williams’s powerful sceptical critique of the morality system sent shockwaves through philosophy, the implications of which are still being reckoned with thirty years later. In this outstanding collection of new essays, fourteen internationally-recognised philosophers examine the enduring contrib…
Progress and Historical Reflection in Philosophy
What is the epistemic significance of reflecting on a discipline’s past for making progress in that discipline? The author assumes that the answer to this question negatively correlates with that discipline’s degree of progress over time. If and only if a science is progressive, then what people have thought and argued in the past in that discipline ceases to be up to date. This chapter distinguishes different dimensions of disciplinary progress …
What Has History to Do with Philosophy? Insights from the Medieval Contemplative Tradition
This chapter focuses on the corrective and complementary roles that a historically oriented approach can occupy in philosophical discussions. First, it argues that analysis of the development of key definitions, concepts, principles and so forth can often illuminate problematic prejudices that should motivate a re-examination of the philosophical considerations in their favour. Second, it claims that this re-examination should involve looking at …
Philosophy and the Historical Perspective
Since the rise of analytical philosophy, the relation of philosophy and its past is more hotly debated among philosophers than ever. Some scholars analyse historical texts without reference to current debates and their terminology, while others pursue first-order philosophy by focusing on problems instead of doxography—that is, without reference to their predecessors. A growing group, though, doubts that philosophy can be studied effectively on t…
The Alienation Effect in the Historiography of Philosophy
It has often been said that we should enter into a dialogue with thinkers of the past because they discussed the same problems we still have today and presented sophisticated solutions to them. I argue that this ‘dialogue model’ ignores the specific context in which many problems were created and defined. A closer look at various contexts enables us to see that philosophical problems are not as natural as they might seem. When we contextualise th…
Kant and the Problem of Demandingness
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Moral Rationalism and Demandingness in Kant
We discuss Kant’s conception of moral rationalism from the viewpoint of recent debates, which have distinguished different forms of moral rationalism. We argue that Kant’s version, ‘silencing’, is different and stronger than currently held versions of moral rationalism and that it also differs from versions of silencing that contemporary thinkers advocate. We then discuss Kant’s version of silencing in the context of the moral demandingness debat…
Ethics Beyond the Limits
The Demandingness of Beneficence and Kant’s System of Duties
This paper contributes to the discussion of the moral demandingness of Kantian ethics by critically discussing an argument that is currently popular among Kantians. The argument from the system of duties holds that (a) in the Kantian system of duties the demandingness of our duty of beneficence is internally moderated by other moral prescriptions, such as the indirect duty to secure happiness, duties to oneself and special obligations. Furthermor…
The limits of moral obligation
"The idea for this volume grew out of discussions about how to analyze limits of moral obligation in general. The debates on (over-)demandingness, on the one hand, and on the principle 'ought implies can,' on the other hand, usually appear separated and their respective issues do not seem to be related. However, we raised the question of how both issues had to be analyzed if they were to be thought of as being more closely relate to each other th…
The Limits of Moral Obligation
Kant and Moral Demandingness
A Companion to Marcus Aurelius
A Companion to Marcus Aurelius
Kant and Moral Demandingness
The Limits of Moral Obligation
The limits of moral obligation
"The idea for this volume grew out of discussions about how to analyze limits of moral obligation in general. The debates on (over-)demandingness, on the one hand, and on the principle 'ought implies can,' on the other hand, usually appear separated and their respective issues do not seem to be related. However, we raised the question of how both issues had to be analyzed if they were to be thought of as being more closely relate to each other th…
Ethics Beyond the Limits
Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely regarded as one of the most important works of moral philosophy in the last fifty years. Williams’s powerful sceptical critique of the morality system sent shockwaves through philosophy, the implications of which are still being reckoned with thirty years later. In this outstanding collection of new essays, fourteen internationally-recognised philosophers examine the enduring contrib…
Progress and Historical Reflection in Philosophy
What is the epistemic significance of reflecting on a discipline’s past for making progress in that discipline? The author assumes that the answer to this question negatively correlates with that discipline’s degree of progress over time. If and only if a science is progressive, then what people have thought and argued in the past in that discipline ceases to be up to date. This chapter distinguishes different dimensions of disciplinary progress …
What Has History to Do with Philosophy? Insights from the Medieval Contemplative Tradition
This chapter focuses on the corrective and complementary roles that a historically oriented approach can occupy in philosophical discussions. First, it argues that analysis of the development of key definitions, concepts, principles and so forth can often illuminate problematic prejudices that should motivate a re-examination of the philosophical considerations in their favour. Second, it claims that this re-examination should involve looking at …
Philosophy and the Historical Perspective
Since the rise of analytical philosophy, the relation of philosophy and its past is more hotly debated among philosophers than ever. Some scholars analyse historical texts without reference to current debates and their terminology, while others pursue first-order philosophy by focusing on problems instead of doxography—that is, without reference to their predecessors. A growing group, though, doubts that philosophy can be studied effectively on t…
The Alienation Effect in the Historiography of Philosophy
It has often been said that we should enter into a dialogue with thinkers of the past because they discussed the same problems we still have today and presented sophisticated solutions to them. I argue that this ‘dialogue model’ ignores the specific context in which many problems were created and defined. A closer look at various contexts enables us to see that philosophical problems are not as natural as they might seem. When we contextualise th…
Kant and the Problem of Demandingness
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Moral Rationalism and Demandingness in Kant
We discuss Kant’s conception of moral rationalism from the viewpoint of recent debates, which have distinguished different forms of moral rationalism. We argue that Kant’s version, ‘silencing’, is different and stronger than currently held versions of moral rationalism and that it also differs from versions of silencing that contemporary thinkers advocate. We then discuss Kant’s version of silencing in the context of the moral demandingness debat…
Ethics Beyond the Limits
The Demandingness of Beneficence and Kant’s System of Duties
This paper contributes to the discussion of the moral demandingness of Kantian ethics by critically discussing an argument that is currently popular among Kantians. The argument from the system of duties holds that (a) in the Kantian system of duties the demandingness of our duty of beneficence is internally moderated by other moral prescriptions, such as the indirect duty to secure happiness, duties to oneself and special obligations. Furthermor…
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