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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9781783742004 |
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MnU |
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eng |
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MnU |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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B72 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
| Title |
Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint |
| Remainder of title |
An Introduction to Moral Philosophy |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Catherine Wilson |
| 264 #2 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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Open Textbook Library |
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Open Book Publishers |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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1 online resource |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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Open textbook library. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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Introduction and Acknowledgements -- Enquiry I -- Enquiry II -- Enquiry III -- Enquiry IV -- Enquiry V -- Enquiry VI -- Enquiry VII -- Enquiry VIII -- Enquiry IX |
| 520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
| Summary, etc. |
Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by 'right' and 'wrong.' Looking at a wide spectrum of topics including moral language, realism and anti-realism, reasons and motives, relativism, and moral progress, this book engages students and general readers in order to enhance their understanding of morality and moral discourse as cultural practices. Catherine Wilson innovatively employs a first-person narrator to report step-by-step an individual's reflections, beginning from a position of radical scepticism, on the possibility of objective moral knowledge. The reader is invited to follow along with this reasoning, and to challenge or agree with each major point. Incrementally, the narrator is led to certain definite conclusions about 'oughts' and norms in connection with self-interest, prudence, social norms, and finally morality. Scepticism is overcome, and the narrator arrives at a good understanding of how moral knowledge and moral progress are possible, though frequently long in coming.Accessibly written, Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint presupposes no prior training in philosophy and is a must-read for philosophers, students and general readers interested in gaining a better understanding of morality as a personal philosophical quest. |
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Attribution |
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In English. |
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Description based on print resource |
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Philosophy |
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Textbooks |
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Wilson, Catherine |
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author |
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Open Textbook Library |
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distributor |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/728">https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/728</a> |
| Public note |
Access online version |