The Autonomy of Morality
The Autonomy of Morality

Author: Charles Larmore

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-07-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521717823

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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 is reason our capacity to impose 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. In particular, 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. Charles Larmore is W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. The author of The Morals of Modernity and The Romantic Legacy, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 he received the Grand Prix de Philosophie from the Académie Française for his book Les pratiques du moi.

Kant on Moral Autonomy
Kant on Moral Autonomy

Author: Oliver Sensen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1107004861

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This book explores the central importance Kant's concept of autonomy for contemporary moral thought and modern philosophy.

Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism
Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism

Author: John Christman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-02-07

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1139444204

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In recent years the concepts of individual autonomy and political liberalism have been the subjects of intense debate, but these discussions have occurred largely within separate academic disciplines. Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism contains essays devoted to foundational questions regarding both the notion of the autonomous self and the nature and justification of liberalism. Written by leading figures in moral, legal and political theory, the volume covers inter alia the following topics: the nature of the self and its relation to autonomy, the social dimensions of autonomy and the political dynamics of respect and recognition, and the concept of autonomy underlying the principles of liberalism.

The Invention of Autonomy
The Invention of Autonomy

Author: Jerome B. Schneewind

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9780521479387

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This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for him and how he arrived at his own distinctive ethical views. The book is organised into four main sections, each exploring moral philosophy by discussing the work of many influential philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In an epilogue the author discusses Kant's view of his own historicity, and of the aims of moral philosophy. In its range, in its analyses of many philosophers not discussed elsewhere, and in revealing the subtle interweaving of religious and political thought with moral philosophy, this is an unprecedented account of the evolution of Kant's ethics.

Personal Autonomy
Personal Autonomy

Author: James Stacey Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-01-10

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9781139442718

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Autonomy has recently become one of the central concepts in contemporary moral philosophy and has generated much debate over its nature and value. This 2005 volume brings together essays that address the theoretical foundations of the concept of autonomy, as well as essays that investigate the relationship between autonomy and moral responsibility, freedom, political philosophy, and medical ethics. Written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in these areas, this book represents research on the nature and value of autonomy that will be essential reading for a broad swathe of philosophers as well as many psychologists.

Autonomy, Moral Worth, and Right
Autonomy, Moral Worth, and Right

Author: Jeffrey Edwards

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 311051611X

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This book examines the surprising ramifications of Kant’s late account of practical reason’s obligatory ends as well as a revolutionary implication of his theory of property. It thereby sheds new light on Kant’s place in the history of modern moral philosophy.

The Theory and Practice of Autonomy
The Theory and Practice of Autonomy

Author: Gerald Dworkin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988-08-26

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1316583376

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This important new book develops a new concept of autonomy. The notion of autonomy has emerged as central to contemporary moral and political philosophy, particularly in the area of applied ethics. professor Dworkin examines the nature and value of autonomy and uses the concept to analyse various practical moral issues such as proxy consent in the medical context, paternalism, and entrapment by law enforcement officials.

Practical Autonomy and Bioethics
Practical Autonomy and Bioethics

Author: James Stacey Taylor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-07

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1135255318

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This book develops a unique account of autonomy in which its attribution to agents is dependent in part on their relationships with others and not merely upon their mental states. This is then applied to bioethical issues—e.g., informed consent and patient confidentiality—in which autonomy plays a central role.