Building the Moral Community
Radical Naturalism and Emergence- Authors:
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- 2016
Summary
Building the Moral Community: Radical Naturalism and Emergence demonstrates how very simple models of moral engagements based on natural, incomplete, value-laden frames of the world can lead to general moral progress for the human community. All moral behavior affects more than one person, which means that the moral community is more than the sum of the individuals included in it.
David W. Chambers argues that there is no ethically detached and superior position from which to operate, and that such claims are focused on ethics, not on acting morally. Therefore, he cautions against mistaking theories of ethics composed on statements about what is good and right for actual moral behavior that moves broadly and inevitably toward a better world.
This book explores naturalistic ethics, offering a modified classical analytic philosophy exploration of morality that is consistent with emerging thinking in psychology, neurobiology, game theory, and self-adjusting systems.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2016
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4985-2619-7
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4985-2620-3
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 355
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Chapter One: Morality and Ethics No access Pages 1 - 26
- Chapter Two: Moral Engagements No access Pages 27 - 52
- Chapter Three: Simple Moral Choice No access Pages 53 - 76
- Chapter Four: Complex Moral Choice No access Pages 77 - 98
- Chapter Five: Simple Moral Engagements No access Pages 99 - 126
- Chapter Six: Complex Moral Engagements No access Pages 127 - 152
- Chapter Seven: Framing No access Pages 153 - 178
- Chapter Eight: Common Sense Patterns No access Pages 179 - 202
- Chapter Nine: Reframing and Bargaining No access Pages 203 - 222
- Chapter Ten: Moral Community No access Pages 223 - 252
- Chapter Eleven: Failure to Engage No access Pages 253 - 282
- Chapter Twelve: Moral Progress No access Pages 283 - 308
- Appendix No access Pages 309 - 330
- Bibliography No access Pages 331 - 350
- Index No access Pages 351 - 354
- About the Author No access Pages 355 - 355





