Research Catalog

Title

Patterns of moral complexity / Charles E. Larmore.

Author

Larmore, Charles E.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

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Additional Authors

Rawls, John, 1921-2002

Description

xv, 193 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

Ethics

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 181-189.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Moral Judgment -- An Aristotelian Insight -- Kant on examples -- The centrality of judgment -- The puzzling nature of judgment -- Theory and practice -- The Limits of Neo-Aristotelianism -- MacIntyre's indictment of modernity -- The objectivity and autonomy of morals -- A modernist malgre lui -- Liberalism and the Neutrality of the State -- In praise of bureaucracy -- What is neutrality? -- Neutrality and classical utilitarianism -- Why neutrality? -- Ideal conversations -- Equal respect -- Practical limits -- The Political Order and Personal Ideals -- Liberal justice as a modus vivendi -- Kantian liberalism -- Morality and moral psychology -- Political Romanticism -- Herder: pluralism and expressivism -- Hegel's idea of Sittlichkeit -- Marx's critique of liberalism -- Rawls's ambiguities and neo-romanticism -- The Heterogeneity of Morality -- Butler's problem -- Partiality -- The ethics of conviction and the ethics of responsibility.

ISBN

• 0521330343
• 0521338913 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^86017014^

OCLC

13859498

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library