A Humane Case for Moral Intuition

Llamzon, Benjamin S.

ISBN 10: 905183540X / ISBN 13: 9789051835403

Published by Editions Rodopi, 1993

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376 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Humane Case for Moral Intuition
• Publisher: Editions Rodopi
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 905183540X
• ISBN 13: 9789051835403
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.82 kilograms

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Synopsis

The book contends that contrary to accepted interpretation, moral intuition, rather than any other form of reasoning, least of all formal logic, is the moral method found in the ethics of Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant and Dewey - the first four chapters of the book. These four thinkers represent a dialectical selection of ethical relativism and absolutism as well as a chronological succession from ancient to contemporary thought. The fifth and concluding chapter is a major presentation of the author's thesis on moral intuition as the exact antidote against the dilemma ethics approach, which is widely used today with rapidly diminishing effect and interest. This chapter is a detailed illustration of how moral intuition works out concretely in the lived world. It stresses the unity of moral experience even as this is clouded over by our relatively fewer, but overdramatized, confrontations on some moral issues.