The Autonomy Of Morality
by Charles Larmore /
2008 / English / PDF
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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 is reason our capacity to impose
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. In particular, 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. Charles Larmore is W. Duncan MacMillan Family
Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Brown
University. The author of The Morals of Modernity and The Romantic
Legacy, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. In 2004 he received the Grand Prix de Philosophie from
the Académie Française for his book Les pratiques du moi.
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 is reason our capacity to impose
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. In particular, 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. Charles Larmore is W. Duncan MacMillan Family
Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Brown
University. The author of The Morals of Modernity and The Romantic
Legacy, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. In 2004 he received the Grand Prix de Philosophie from
the Académie Française for his book Les pratiques du moi.
