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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521478685
ISBN-139780521478687
eBay Product ID (ePID)199382
Product Key Features
Number of Pages264 Pages
Publication NameMaking Sense of Humanity : and Other Philosophical Papers 1982-1993
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEthics & Moral Philosophy, General
Publication Year1995
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy
AuthorBernard Williams
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight15 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN94-030859
Dewey Edition20
Reviews‘In Making Sense of Humanity, Williams takes his scapel and sets about slicing morality’s jugular: free will, blame, moral responsibility, the ability of everone to do the right thing, and the possibility of a theoretical justification for being good. His attack seems to me to be alarmingly convincing.’Spectator, 'A treat: civilised, sharp discussions of serious issues, spiked with asides which are deep, funny and sometimes both' Onora O'Neill, Times Higher Education Supplement, "Any sensitive reader will be struck by the force of Williams's vision and the eloquence with which it is expressed." Samuel Scheffler, Times Literary Supplement, ‘A treat: civilised, sharp discussions of serious issues, spiked with asides which are deep, funny and sometimes both’Onora O’Neill, Times Higher Education Supplement, "Bernard Williams is the most prominent writer on ethics among living British philosophers, and this collection of articles shows the unfailing clarity and penetration which inform his style. At their best they provide valuable additions to the repertoire of moral thinking offered in Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy and Moral Luck." TWM, 'In Making Sense of Humanity, Williams takes his scapel and sets about slicing morality's jugular: free will, blame, moral responsibility, the ability of everone to do the right thing, and the possibility of a theoretical justification for being good. His attack seems to me to be alarmingly convincing.' Spectator, "...these essays contain much which shows Williams' distinctive strengths, including his formidable analytic skills and his sensitivity to the complexities of lived experience. His discussion of the ambiguities of blame and responsibility, also found in the first section of the book, offers a fine example of the careful, nuanced reflection which has made Williams such an important figure in contemporary thought." International Philosophical Quarterly
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal192
Table Of ContentPreface; Part I. Action, Freedom, Responsibility: 1. How free does the will need to be? 2. Voluntary acts and responsible agents; 3. Internal reasons and the obscurity of blame; 4. Moral incapacity; 5. Acts and omissions, doing and not doing; 6. Nietzsche's minimalist moral psychology; Part II. Philosophy, Evolution and the Human Sciences: 7. Making sense of humanity; 8. Evolutionary theory and epistemology; 9. Evolution, ethics and the representation problem; 10. Formal structures and social reality; 11. Formal and substantial individualism; 12. Saint-Just's illusion; Part III. Ethics: 13. The point of view of the universe; 14. Ethics and the fabric of the world; 15. What does intuitionism imply; 16. Professional morality and its dispositions; 17. Who needs ethical knowledge?; 18. What slopes are slippery? 19. Resenting one's own existence; 20. Must a concern for the environment be centred on human beings? 21. Moral luck: a postscript.
SynopsisLike the two earlier volumes of Bernard Williams' papers published by Cambridge University Press, Problems of the Self and Moral Luck, Making Sense of Humanity will be welcomed by all readers with a serious interest in philosophy. It is published alongside a volume of essays on Williams' work, World, Mind and Ethics: Essays on the Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams, edited by J.E.J. Altham and Ross Harrison, which provides a reappraisal of his work by other distinguished thinkers in the field., Like the two earlier volumes of Bernard Williams's papers published by Cambridge University Press, Problems of the Self and Moral Luck, Making Sense of Humanity will be welcomed by all readers with a serious interest in philosophy. It is published alongside a volume of essays on Williams's work, World, Mind and Ethics: Essays on the Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams, edited by J. E. J. Altham and Ross Harrison, which provides a reappraisal of his work by other distinguished thinkers in the field., This new volume of philosophical papers by Bernard Williams is divided into three sections: the first Action, Freedom, Responsibility, the second Philosophy, Evolution and the Human Sciences; in which appears the essay which gives the collection its title; and the third Ethics, which contains essays closely related to his 1983 book Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. Like the two earlier volumes of Williams's papers published by Cambridge University Press, Problems of the Self and Moral Luck, this volume will be welcomed by all readers with a serious interest in philosophy. It is published alongside a volume of essays on Williams's work, World, Mind, and Ethics: Essays on the Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams, edited by J. E. J. Altham and Ross Harrison, which provides a reappraisal of his work by other distinguished thinkers in the field.
LC Classification NumberBJ1031 .W47 1995
