Commonality and Particularity in Ethics

Original essays by distinguished philosophers from different fields of philosophy are brought together in this book. Reflections on moral discourse and its contexts are provided and the authors discuss the nature and tasks of moral philosophy. The overall collection creates a dialogue between different philosophical views.

Inhalt
Preface and Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; L.Alanen, S.Heinamaa & T.Wallgren - Doing Things With Others: The Mental Commons; A.C.Baier - Why are Philosophers of Action so Anti-Social? - F.Stoutland - Voices of the Will; L.Hertzberg - The Notion of Trust in Philosophical Psychology; O.Lagerspetz - Response to Olli Lagerspetz; A.C.Baier - Some Reflections on the Self in Its Relationship to Good and Evil; I.Dilman - Ethics and Humanistic Ethics: A Reply to Dilman; D.Z.Phillips - Professor Anscombe's Moral Philosophy; P.Winch - Moral Differences and Distances: Some Questions; C.Diamond - The Moralisation of Good and Evil; R.Gaita - Ethics, Philosophy and Language; S.Stenlund - Varieties of Enlightenment Optimism; T.Wallgren - Moral Reasoning and Moral Practice; M.Raffnsoe-Moller - Kant and the Language of Reason; M.von der Ruhr - Community, Autonomy or Both? Feminist Ethics Between Contextualism and Universalism; U.Holm - Remaking a Form of Life; J.Meloe - Index