Reading Bernard Williams

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-77189-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 625 g

When Bernard Williams died in 2003, the Times newspaper hailed him ‘as the greatest moral philosopher of his generation’. This outstanding collection of specially commissioned new essays on Williams's work is essential reading for anyone interested in Williams, ethics and moral philosophy and philosophy in general.
Reading Bernard Williams examines the astonishing scope of his philosophy from metaphysics and philosophy of mind to ethics, political philosophy and the history of philosophy. An international line up of outstanding contributors discuss, amongst others, the following central aspects of Williams's work:

- Williams's challenge to contemporary moral philosophy and his criticisms of 'absolute' theories of morality

- reason and rationality

- the good life

- the emotions

- Williams and the phenomenological tradition

- philosophical and political agency

- moral and political luck

- ethical relativism

Contributors: Simon Blackburn; John Cottingham; Frances Ferguson; Joshua Gert; Peter Goldie; Charles Guignon; Sharon Krause; Christopher Kutz; Daniel Markovits; Elijah Millgram; Martha Naussbaum; Carol Rovane

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Callcut, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I Ethics and metaphysics, PART II Human reasons, PART III Stories and self-conceptions, PART IV Political realism, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Callcut