Zagzebski, Professor Linda
Exemplarist Moral Theory
- ISBN 13:
- 9780190072254
- author:
- Zagzebski, Professor Linda
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Oxford University Press Inc
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 290
- Dimensions:
- 23.3 x 15.5 x 1.8 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Language Arts, Linguistics,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Linda Zagzebski presents an original moral theory in Exemplarist Moral Theory. This approach is based on direct reference to exemplars of goodness, drawing inspiration from the Putnam-Kripke theory that revolutionized semantics in the 1970s. Exemplars are identified through admiration, a motivating emotion that also enables the mapping of the moral domain around their features. Zagzebski illustrates how narratives of exemplars and empirical work on admirable individuals can be incorporated into the theory to generate a comprehensive framework for moral education and self-improvement. The theory defines basic moral terms by the motives, ends, acts, or judgments of exemplars. The Exemplarist Moral Theory also generates an account of moral learning through emulation of exemplars, and Zagzebski defends a principle of dividing moral linguistic labor among groups in a community. This approach is semantically externalist, with the meaning of moral terms determined by features of the world outside the mind of the user, including those of exemplars and social linguistic networks linking users to them.
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