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Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought
Alice Crary
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Description for Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought
Hardback. Alice Crary offers a transformative account of moral thought about human beings and animals. Instead of assuming that the world places no demands on our moral imagination, she underscores the urgency of treating the exercise of moral imagination as necessary for arriving at an adequate world-guided understanding of human beings and animals. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Alice Crary's Inside Ethics is a transformative account of moral thought about human beings and animals. We have come to think of human beings and animals as elements of a morally indifferent reality that reveals itself only to neutral or science-based methods. This little-commented-on trend, which shapes the work of moral philosophers and popular ethical writers alike, has pernicious effects, distorting our understanding of the difficulty of moral thinking. Inside Ethics traces the roots of existing views to tendencies in ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Crary underlines the moral urgency of revisiting our approach in ethics ... Read more
Alice Crary's Inside Ethics is a transformative account of moral thought about human beings and animals. We have come to think of human beings and animals as elements of a morally indifferent reality that reveals itself only to neutral or science-based methods. This little-commented-on trend, which shapes the work of moral philosophers and popular ethical writers alike, has pernicious effects, distorting our understanding of the difficulty of moral thinking. Inside Ethics traces the roots of existing views to tendencies in ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Crary underlines the moral urgency of revisiting our approach in ethics ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
290
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674967816
SKU
V9780674967816
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About Alice Crary
Alice Crary is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research.
Reviews for Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought
This book is a sustained attempt to argue in favor of the claim that human and non-human animals alike are intrinsically ethically significant things, and in particular not beings whose ethical significance is a function of the ethical significance of some given set of attributes or capacities or interests they happen to possess. Anyone working on these topics will be ... Read more