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dc.contributor.authorSauer, Hanno
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-06T08:46:25Z
dc.date.available2023-06-06T08:46:25Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63220
dc.description.abstractThis book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated, naturalistically respectable form of teleology can be defended. The book’s main aim is to flesh out the process of moral progress in more detail, and to show how, when the right mechanisms and institutions of moral progress are matched together, they create pressure for the desired types of moral gains to manifest. The first part of the book deals with two issues: the conceptual one about what moral progress is, and the broadly empirical one whether it is possible. It shows that cultural evolution successfully explains the origins of modern forms of morally welcome change. The second part argues that there is logical space for a moderate, scientifically credible form of teleology, and that the converse case for moral decline is weak. It addresses the types, drivers, and institutions of moral progress that allow for the storage, transmission, and cumulative improvement of our normative infrastructure over time. Finally, the third part demonstrates why moral progress cannot be accounted for in metaethically realist terms. Moral Teleology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethics, moral epistemology, and moral psychology.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theoryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophyen_US
dc.subject.otherambivalence;autonomy;benevolence;disagreement;functionalism;Hanno Sauer;metaethics;moral facts;moral knowledge;moral progress;moral psychology;moral regress;moral status;moral teleology;moral universalism;norms;practices;sociability;socially extended mind;well-beingen_US
dc.titleMoral Teleologyen_US
dc.title.alternativeA Theory of Progressen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003375753en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isFundedBy178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032451800en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032451817en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781003375753en_US
oapen.collectionEuropean Research Council (ERC)en_US
oapen.pages226en_US


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