Morality in a Realistic Spirit

Taylor & Francis

Morality in a Realistic SpiritEssays for Cora Diamond\nAuthor(s): Andrew Gleeson, Craig Taylor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032177281, 978-1032177281\nSynopsis\nThis unique collection of essays has two main purposes. The first is to honour the pioneering work of Cora Diamond, one of the most important living moral philosophers and certainly the most important working in the tradition inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The second is to develop and deepen a picture of moral philosophy by carrying out new work in what Diamond has called the realistic spirit.\n\nThe contributors in this book advance a first-order moral attitude that pays close attention to actual moral life and experience. Their essays, inspired by Diamonds work, take up pressing challenges in Anglo-American moral philosophy, including Diamonds defence of the concept human being in ethics, her defence of literature as a source of moral thought tha.