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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2023
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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
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| 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. |
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| 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
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2023.2293992 |