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Moral feelings, moral reality, and moral progress

Title
Moral feelings, moral reality, and moral progress [electronic resource] / Thomas Nagel.
Author
Nagel, Thomas, 1937-
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.

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Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
Summary
"This book consists of two essays that are related to each other: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge" and "Moral Reality and Moral Progress." The longer second essay has not been previously published. Both are concerned with moral epistemology and our means of access to moral truth; both are concerned with moral realism and with the resistance to subjectivist and reductionist accounts of morality; and both are concerned with the historical development of moral knowledge. The second essay also proposes an account of the historical development of moral truth, according to which it does not share the timelessness of scientific truth. This is because moral truth must be based on reasons that are accessible to the individuals to whom they apply, and such accessibility depends on historical developments"--
Uniform Title
Moral feelings, moral reality, and moral progress (Online)
Alternative Title
Moral feelings, moral reality, and moral progress (Online)
Subject
  • Ethics
  • Emotions (Philosophy)
  • Moral realism
  • Knowledge, Theory of
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Gut feelings and moral knowledge -- Moral reality and moral progress.
ISBN
9780197690895
LCCN
2023032461
OCLC
ssj0002915474
Author
Nagel, Thomas, 1937-
Title
Moral feelings, moral reality, and moral progress [electronic resource] / Thomas Nagel.
Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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