What is morality? In Practical Expressivism, Neil Sinclair argues that
morality is a purely natural interpersonal co-ordination device,
whereby human beings express their attitudes in order to influence the
attitudes and actions of others. The ultimate goal of these
expressions is to find acceptable ways of living together. This
'expressivist' model for understanding morality faces well-known
challenges concerning 'saving the appearances' of morality, because
morality presents itself to us as a practice of objective discovery,
not pure expression. This book demonstrates how a properly developed
expressivist view can overcome this objection, by showing that even if
moral practice is fundamentally expressive, it can still come to
possess those features that make it appear objective (features such as
talk and thought of moral disagreement, truth and belief, and the
applicability of logical notions to moral sentences). The key to this
development is to emphasise the unique and intricate practical role
that morality plays in our lives. Practical expressivism is also
practical in the further sense that it provides repeatable patterns
that expressivists can deploy in coming to understand the apparently
objective features of morality.
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ISBN
9780192635693
Publisert
2021
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Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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