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| Title: | How Skeptics Do Ethics
: A Brief History of the Late Modern Linguistic Turn |
| Author: | Aubrey Neal |
| ISBN: | 1552382028 : 9781552382028 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 316 |
| Weight: | .49 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Calgary Press - February 2007 |
| List Price: | 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Ethics & moral philosophy |
Enlightenment philosophers are often credited with formulating many theories about humankind & society, & in our post-modern age, we still live with some of the very same compelling, contentious & often unresolved questions about ourselves & the world we live in. Author Aubrey Neal suggests that one of these issues that lingers with us today is scepticism, & in 'How Skeptics do Ethics', he unravels the thread of this philosophy from its origins in enlightenment thinking down to our present age. He contends that linguistics & language have not brought modern philosophy any closer to understanding the role & nature of ethics in our current science-based society. Going further, Neal suggests the contemporary reader meets traditional terms for ethical theory, plausible belief & moral action in a different world from the one in which they were coined. Instead, these considerations for modern thinkers require a coherent language practice suitable for the social context in which we live, & thus raise the question of the meaning of old philosophical debates & their value for our society today. Referencing such luminary thinkers as Hume, Kant, & Hegel, Neal seeks to re-ignite age old questions & awaken the reader to a sense that our contemporary modes of reference & understanding should be seen from a substantially different point of view. Challenging, bracing, & entirely unflinching, 'How Skeptics do Ethics' is a wake-up call for anyone who thinks seriously about our society, ourselves, & the world in which we live.
Hume's Predicament. Hegel's Predicament. The Linguistic Turn. The Modern Predicament. Postmodernism. Index.
