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oapen-20.500.12657-632202024-03-28T08:18:54Z Moral Teleology Sauer, Hanno ambivalence;autonomy;benevolence;disagreement;functionalism;Hanno Sauer;metaethics;moral facts;moral knowledge;moral progress;moral psychology;moral regress;moral status;moral teleology;moral universalism;norms;practices;sociability;socially extended mind;well-being thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated, naturalistically respectable form of teleology can be defended. The book’s main aim is to flesh out the process of moral progress in more detail, and to show how, when the right mechanisms and institutions of moral progress are matched together, they create pressure for the desired types of moral gains to manifest. The first part of the book deals with two issues: the conceptual one about what moral progress is, and the broadly empirical one whether it is possible. It shows that cultural evolution successfully explains the origins of modern forms of morally welcome change. The second part argues that there is logical space for a moderate, scientifically credible form of teleology, and that the converse case for moral decline is weak. It addresses the types, drivers, and institutions of moral progress that allow for the storage, transmission, and cumulative improvement of our normative infrastructure over time. Finally, the third part demonstrates why moral progress cannot be accounted for in metaethically realist terms. Moral Teleology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethics, moral epistemology, and moral psychology. 2023-06-06T08:46:25Z 2023-06-06T08:46:25Z 2023 book 9781032451800 9781032451817 9781003375753 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63220 eng Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000899566.pdf Taylor & Francis 10.4324/9781003375753 10.4324/9781003375753 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9781032451800 9781032451817 9781003375753 European Research Council (ERC) 226 H2020 European Research Council H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council open access
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This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated, naturalistically respectable form of teleology can be defended.
The book’s main aim is to flesh out the process of moral progress in more detail, and to show how, when the right mechanisms and institutions of moral progress are matched together, they create pressure for the desired types of moral gains to manifest. The first part of the book deals with two issues: the conceptual one about what moral progress is, and the broadly empirical one whether it is possible. It shows that cultural evolution successfully explains the origins of modern forms of morally welcome change. The second part argues that there is logical space for a moderate, scientifically credible form of teleology, and that the converse case for moral decline is weak. It addresses the types, drivers, and institutions of moral progress that allow for the storage, transmission, and cumulative improvement of our normative infrastructure over time. Finally, the third part demonstrates why moral progress cannot be accounted for in metaethically realist terms.
Moral Teleology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethics, moral epistemology, and moral psychology.
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