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The Autonomy of Morality

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ID23399166
AuthorsCharles Larmore (Brown University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Publication date2008-07-14
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueAutonomy of Morality (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511816611
OpenAlexW563793936
Open LibraryOL34475969M
ISBN9780511816611
LanguageEN
Citations received70
References cited23

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 this light does the true basis of a liberal political order come into view, as well as the role of unexpected goods in the makeup of a life lived well.

Action (physics) · Autonomy · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Morality · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education

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