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Cambridge The Autonomy of Morality 2008 Edition by Charles Larmore
In The Autonomy of Morality Charles Larmore challenges two ideas that have shaped the modern mind. The world, he argues, is not a realm of value-neutral fact, nor does human freedom consist in imposing principles of our own devising on an alien reality. Rather, reason consists in being responsive to reasons for thought and action that arise from the world itself. Larmore shows that the moral good has an authority that speaks for itself. Only in this light does the true basis of a liberal political order come into view, as well as the role of unexpected goods in the makeup of a life lived well. Table of contents :- Part I. Reason and Reasons: 1. History and truth; 2. Back to Kant? No way; 3. Attending to reasons; Part II. The Moral Point of View: 4. John Rawls and moral philosophy; 5. The autonomy of morality; Part III. Political Principles: 6. The moral basis of political liberalism; 7. The meanings of political freedom; 8. Public reason; Part IV. Truth and Chance: 9. Nietzsche and the will to truth; 10. The idea of a life plan.