Research Catalog

Title

Strong evaluation without moral sources : on Charles Taylor's philosophical anthropology and ethics / by Arto Laitinen.

Author

Laitinen, Arto.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2008.

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Details

Description

xi, 385 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Charles Taylor (1931- ) is one of the leading living philosophers. This is the first extended study on the key notions of his views in philosophical anthropology and ethical theory. Firstly, Arto Laitinen clarifies, qualifies and defends Taylor's thesis that transcendental arguments show that personal understandings concerning ethical and other values (so called "strong evaluation") is necessary, in different ways, for human agency, selfhood, identity and personhood. Secondly, Laitinen defends and develops in various ways Taylor's value realism. Finally, the book criticizes Taylor's view that it is necessary to identify and locate a constitutive source of value, such as God, Nature or Human Reason. Taylor relies heavily on this claim in his accounts of moral life, modern identity and, most recently, secularisation. Laitinen argues that the whole notion of constitutive moral source should be dropped Taylor's views concerning strong evaluation and value realism are distorted by the question of constitutive "moral sources"."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie, 0344-8142 ; Bd. 86

Uniform Title

Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ; Bd. 86.

Alternative Title

Charles Taylor's philosophical anthropology and ethics

Subject

• Taylor, Charles, 1931-
• Taylor, Charles, 1931- > Ethics
• Taylor, Charles 1931-
• Taylor, Charles, 1931-
• Philosophische Anthropologie Werk
• 1900-1999
• Ethics > History > 20th century
• Philosophical anthropology > History > 20th century
• Values
• Ethics
• Philosophical anthropology
• Ethik
• Evaluation

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University Jyväskylä, 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Philosophical anthropology of strong evaluation -- 1. What is strong evaluation? A reading and reconstruction of Taylor's central concept -- 2. Human agents as strong evaluators -- 3. Personhood as strongly valued: tpdel a strong evaluator as an end in itself -- 4. Does identity consist of strong evaluations? -- Pt. II. Ethics of strong evaluation -- 5. The engaged view and the reality of value -- 6. Diversity and universality -- 7. Does moral reality need sources? -- 8. Evaluative beliefs and knowledge -- 9. Moral realism and personal variations -- 10. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9783110204049
• 3110204045

LCCN

2008468389

OCLC

• ocn236329793
• 236329793
• SCSB-9427935

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library