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This volume is great reading for any philosopher or student of philosophy who, like me, firmly believes that (1) a systematic inquiry into how we ought to live and what we owe to each other should be integrated with (2) an understanding of ourselves as thoroughly natural, social creatures whose behavior is explainable using standard scientific methods. More concretely, Railton gives a great account of how to understand (1) the explanations we give for the patterns of change within societies' moral attitudes concerning different kinds of behavior, character traits, and/or public institutions as (2a) objective, natural explanations of the historical developments in question, rather than (2b)the product of subjective "projections" of value onto bare, valueless factual descriptions of how societies' moral norms evolve. For example, we explain (1) the fact that widespread intellectual opposition to slavery first appeared within the 18th Century empires of Britain and France as the product of (2a) the fact that slavery was "morally worse" in these countries' colonies during that period than in any other place or time in history and (2b) the fact people's moral sensibilities evolved in c

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Author

Railton, Peter

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781107126480

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Anthropology, Humanities