Session Information
Session 3B, Moral education
Papers
Time:
2004-09-23
09:00-10:30
Room:
Chair:
Zdenko Kodelja
Discussant:
Zdenko Kodelja
Contribution
One of the reasons why philosophers disagree about morals is that they have different theories about those concepts and features of the world that play essential roles in morality. I discuss the case of R.S. Peters, the linguistic analysis philosopher, his conception of reason lead him, as I argue , to provid his moral theory, meta-ethics and moral psychology.Peters is commited to reason and insists that he is giving a rational account of morals. His theory leads him to see morality and moral judgments as products of reason. Beleaving that the social dimension of reason is dominant, he argue that it is public and co-operative. This led him to claim that a rational moral theory must not be egocentrist. He rejects the view that goodness is a personal matter, since morality emerges from reson, and objectivity and universality are requirements of reason. His theory of reason is responsible for his view that moral judgements are autonomous, objective, and practical. Since his moral theory is determined by his theory of reason it can be seen as a rational theory.
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