The Sources of Normativity - Softcover

Christine M. Korsgaard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052155960X ISBN 13: 9780521559607

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. But where does their authority over us come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies and examines four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral philosophers--voluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and the appeal to autonomy--and shows how Kant's autonomy-based account emerges as a synthesis of the other three. Her discussion is followed by commentary from G.A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss, Thomas Nagel, and Bernard Williams, and a reply by Korsgaard.

About this title

Book Description:

Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative and make claims on us. This text identifies and examines four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral philosophers-SHvoluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and the appeal to autonomy.

About the Author:

Christine M. Korsgaard is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 052155960X
• ISBN 13: 9780521559607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Onora O'Neill