Moral Knowledge and Ethical Character

Bibliographic Data

ID10700899
AuthorsRobert Audi (0000-0001-9192-0256), Talbot Brewer
Year1999
Volume108
Issue3
Pages433
Publication date1999-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Philosophical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2998473
OpenAlexW2050607420
Open LibraryOL997966M
ISBN9780195114683
LanguageEN
Citations received73

This book presents an ethical theory that uniquely integrates naturalistic and rationalistic elements. Robert Audi develops his theory in four areas: moral epistemology, the metaphysics of ethics, moral psychology, and the foundations of ethics. Comprising both new and published work, the book sets forth a moderate intuitionism, clarifies the relation between reason and motivation, constructs a theory of intrinsic value and its place in moral obligation, and presents a sophisticated account of moral justification. The concluding chapter articulates a new normative framework built from both Kantian and intuitionist elements. Connecting ethics in novel ways to both the theory of value and the philosophy of action, the essays explore topics such as ethical intuition, reason and judgement, and virtue. Audi also considers major views in the history of ethics, including those of Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill, Moore, and W. D. Ross, and engages contemporary work on autonomy, responsibility, objectivity, reasons, and other issues. Clear and conceptually rich, this book makes vital reading for students and scholars of ethics

Analytic philosophy · Autonomy · Character (mathematics) · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · General interest · Information ethics · Intuitionism · Meta-ethics · Moral character · Moral psychology · Normative ethics · Political science · Sociology · Value theory · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Mathematics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Ethics · Moral conditions

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