Reading Bernard Williams
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Reading Bernard Williams

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Reading Bernard Williams

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When Bernard Williams died in 2003, the Times newspaper hailed him 'as the greatest moral philosopher of his generation'. This outstanding collection of specially commissioned new essays on Williams's work is essential reading for anyone interested in Williams, ethics and moral philosophy and philosophy in general.
Reading Bernard Williams examines the astonishing scope of his philosophy from metaphysics and philosophy of mind to ethics, political philosophy and the history of philosophy. An international line up of outstanding contributors discuss, amongst others, the following central aspects of Williams's work:

  • Williams's challenge to contemporary moral philosophy and his criticisms of 'absolute' theories of morality
  • reason and rationality
  • the good life
  • the emotions
  • Williams and the phenomenological tradition
  • philosophical and political agency
  • moral and political luck
  • ethical relativism

Contributors: Simon Blackburn; John Cottingham; Frances Ferguson; Joshua Gert; Peter Goldie; Charles Guignon; Sharon Krause; Christopher Kutz; Daniel Markovits; Elijah Millgram; Martha Naussbaum; Carol Rovane

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2008
ISBN
9781134002979
Edition
1
Topic
Filosofia
Subtopic
Storia e teoria della filosofia

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Notes on contributors
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. PART I Ethics and metaphysics
  8. 1 The absolute conception: Putnam vs Williams
  9. 2 The good life and the ā€œradical contingency of the ethicalā€
  10. 3 Did Williams find the truth in relativism?
  11. PART II Human reasons
  12. 4 Williams on reasons and rationality
  13. 5 Thick concepts and emotion
  14. 6 The architecture of integrity
  15. PART III Stories and self-conceptions
  16. 7 Dā€™oĆ¹ venons-nous ā€¦ Que sommes nous ā€¦ OĆ¹ allons-nous?
  17. 8 Williams and the phenomenological tradition
  18. 9 Bernard Williams and the importance of being literarily earnest
  19. PART IV Political realism
  20. 10 Bernard Williams: Tragedies, hope, justice
  21. 11 Against political luck
  22. 12 Political agency and the actual