नीतिशास्त्र और दर्शन की सीमाएँ

परिचय

Published in 1985, the book is Williams’s most comprehensive statement in ethics. He takes up Socrates’ question “How should one live?” and argues that neither Kantian nor utilitarian theory can answer it from an Archimedean point outside ethical life. What he calls “the morality system” – a special form of ethics centred on obligation, blame and the voluntary – distorts that life. Thick ethical concepts such as courage, cruelty or treachery, which combine description and evaluation, can yield knowledge within a way of life, yet reflection can destroy such knowledge. Williams discusses relativism, proposes a “relativism of distance” and remains sceptical that philosophy can provide ethics with foundations.

संबंध

जिस पर आधारित

• निकोमेकियन नीतिशास्त्रलगभग 340 ईसा पूर्व · अरस्तू

जिनकी आलोचना की

• नैतिकता के तत्त्वमीमांसा की आधारशिला1785 · इमानुएल कांट

बर्नार्ड विलियम्स की और कृतियाँ

• 1973उपयोगितावाद: पक्ष और विपक्ष
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