Commitment and reflection in moral life

On the view that Nicholas Adams advocates in ‘Alternatives to Moral Common Ground’, ethics is complicit in undermining the commitments that constitute our moral lives, because by forcing us to articulate those commitments they lose their hold on us. In this paper I take Adams’ views as a starting po...

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Main Author: Compaijen, Rob (Author)
Contributors: Adams, Nicholas 1970- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
In: International journal of philosophy and theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 84, Issue: 5, Pages: 340-346
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Reflection (Philosophy) / Duty / Morals / Statement
IxTheo Classification:NCA Ethics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Articulation
B Nicholas Adams
B Organizational commitment
B Bernard Williams
B Reflection
B Christine Korsgaard
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Summary:On the view that Nicholas Adams advocates in ‘Alternatives to Moral Common Ground’, ethics is complicit in undermining the commitments that constitute our moral lives, because by forcing us to articulate those commitments they lose their hold on us. In this paper I take Adams’ views as a starting point to explore the idea that ethics might be complicit in undermining our moral lives. Aiming to shed light on the relation between reflection and commitment, I will do two things. First, I try to explain why ethics, as a reflective enterprise, undermines the unspoken hold our commitments have on us. Second, I will explore the idea that reflection is destructive in the sense that it falsifies our pre-reflective commitments.
ISSN:2169-2335
Reference:Kritik von "Obstacles to moral articulation in interreligious engagement (2023)"
Kritik in "Reply to my respondents (2023)"
Contains:Enthalten in: International journal of philosophy and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2023.2293992