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  title info:
    title: Moral Certainty and the Foundations of Morality
  name:
    name part: O'Hara, Neil.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 203 p. online resource.
  abstract: What lies at the foundation of our moral beliefs? If we dig down far enough do we find that our moral values have no ground at all to stand on, and so are apt to collapse upon serious philosophical investigation? This book seeks to answer these and related questions by positing an indubitable foundation for our moral beliefs - they arise from the phenomenon of 'primary recognition', and are fundamentally shaped by 'basic moral certainties'. Drawing on philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Knud Ejler Løgstrup, this book draws together insights from both Analytic and Continental philosophy to provide a convincing new picture of our moral foundations. And it does so in a way that eschews moral conservativism and opens the way for a rich understanding of the variety and particularity of our human moral systems, while also keeping a significant place for those moral beliefs that occur universally, across cultures.
  table of contents: Preface -- 1. Basic Certainty and Morality -- 2. Primary Recognition and Morality -- 3. Morality as Other-Regarding -- 4. Universal Moral Certainty -- 5. Local Moral Certainty -- 6. Implications for Current Metaethics -- 7. Conclusion.
  note: by Neil O'Hara.
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Social Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Man
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  classification: BJ
  classification: 170
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319754444
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75444-4
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