Moral Certainty and the Foundations of Morality

• Main Author: O'Hara, Neil (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Ethics.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Philosophy.; Moral Philosophy.; Social Philosophy.; Philosophy of Man.

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 founda...

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.