Empirically informed ethics [electronic resource] : morality between facts and norms / Markus Christen, Carel van Schaik, Johannes Fischer, Markus Huppenbauer, Carmen Tanner, editors.
2014
BJ1012
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Title
Empirically informed ethics [electronic resource] : morality between facts and norms / Markus Christen, Carel van Schaik, Johannes Fischer, Markus Huppenbauer, Carmen Tanner, editors.
ISBN
9783319013695 electronic book
3319013696 electronic book
9783319013688
3319013696 electronic book
9783319013688
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Cham : Springer, 2014.
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English
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1 online resource (x, 349 pages) : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-3-319-01369-5 doi
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BJ1012
Dewey Decimal Classification
170
Summary
This volume provides an overview of the most recent developments in empirical investigations of morality and assesses their impact and importance for ethical thinking. It involves contributions of scholars both from philosophy, theology and empirical sciences with firm standings in their own disciplines, but an inclination to step across borders?in particular the one between the world of facts and the world of norms. Human morality is complex, and probably even messy?and this clean distinction becomes blurred whenever one looks more closely at the various components that enable and influence our moral actions and ethical orientations. In that way, morality may indeed be located between facts and norms?and an empirically informed ethics that is less concerned with analytical purity but immerses into this moral complexity may be an important step to make the contributions of ethics to this world more valuable and relevant.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 14, 2013).
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Christen, Markus, editor.
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Library of ethics and applied philosophy ; v.32.
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Table of Contents
What is Empirically Informed Ethics?
Investigating Origins of Morality
Assessing the Moral Agent
Justifications between Rational Reflections and Intuitions
Practicing Ethics in the Real World
Critical postscript.
Investigating Origins of Morality
Assessing the Moral Agent
Justifications between Rational Reflections and Intuitions
Practicing Ethics in the Real World
Critical postscript.