Explaining Morality

Critical Realism and Moral Questions

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23521997
AutoresSteve Ash (0000-0002-3365-4866)
Ano2022
Data de publicação2022-02-11
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoExplaining Morality (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003080442
OpenAlexW4211035863
Open LibraryOL35871188M
ISBN9781003080442
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5

Adopting a critical realist approach to morality, this book considers morality as an aspect of social reality, enquiring into the nature of moral agency and asking whether we can legitimately argue for a specific moral position and whether moral positions can be understood to apply universally. Drawing on the thought of Bhaskar, Collier and Sayer, it explores a series of ontological questions about morality, shedding light on the ways in which critical realism can be used to address them, ultimately responding to the question of whether critical realism and the moral theories that have been produced through its use can provide an explanation of morality as a feature of reality. Through a synthesis of realist thought, the author develops a comprehensive theoretical understanding of morality that can be tested for its explanatory power through subsequent practical research. As such, it will appeal to scholars of philosophy and social science with interests in critical realism, ontology and meta-ethics.

Epistemology · Morality · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory · Critical realism · Ethics · Ethics (philosophy) · Morale · Réalisme critique · Social Science · Social sciences