TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson, Catherine
AB  - Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ Looking at a wide spectrum of topics including moral language, realism and anti-realism, reasons and motives, relativism, and moral progress, this book engages students and general readers in order to enhance their understanding of morality and moral discourse as cultural practices. Catherine Wilson innovatively employs a first-person narrator to report step-by-step an individual’s reflections, beginning from a position of radical scepticism, on the possibility of objective moral knowledge. The reader is invited to follow along with this reasoning, and to challenge or agree with each major point. Incrementally, the narrator is led to certain definite conclusions about ‘oughts’ and norms in connection with self-interest, prudence, social norms, and finally morality. Scepticism is overcome, and the narrator arrives at a good understanding of how moral knowledge and moral progress are possible, though frequently long in coming. Accessibly written, Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint presupposes no prior training in philosophy and is a must-read for philosophers, students and general readers interested in gaining a better understanding of morality as a personal philosophical quest.
DO  - 10.11647/OBP.0087
ID  - OAPEN ID: 646663
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 937024920
KW  - moral judgement
KW  - moral knowledge
KW  - metaethics
KW  - moral philosophy
KW  - Abortion
KW  - Ethical egoism
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Human
KW  - Morality
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/95ce6c84-4cdc-4c05-9de6-da5e9f20ffd9/646663.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30336
PB  - Open Book Publishers
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9781783741984
TI  - Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint : An Introduction to Moral Philosophy
ER  - 
