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The Sources of Normativity

By Christine M. Korsgaard

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
052155960X, 9780521559607
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13955230 bytes)
Pages
290\290
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Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. But where does their authority over us come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies and examines four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral philosophers--voluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and the appeal to autonomy--and shows how Kant's autonomy-based account emerges as a synthesis of the other three. Her discussion is followed by commentary from G.A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss, Thomas Nagel, and Bernard Williams, and a reply by Korsgaard.

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