LEADER 03914nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910781979403321 005 20230725053543.0 010 $a0-674-06307-4 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674063075 035 $a(CKB)2550000000056940 035 $a(OCoLC)761327298 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10504836 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000536386 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11364501 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536386 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10547353 035 $a(PQKB)11043527 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300988 035 $a(DE-B1597)178114 035 $a(OCoLC)979578256 035 $a(OCoLC)984658893 035 $a(OCoLC)987942385 035 $a(OCoLC)992471172 035 $a(OCoLC)999372632 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674063075 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300988 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10504836 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000056940 100 $a20101220d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe ethical project$b[electronic resource] /$fPhilip Kitcher 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (433 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-06144-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One. An Analytical History -- $tChapter 1. The Springs of Sympathy -- $tChapter 2. Normative Guidance -- $tChapter 3. Experiments of Living -- $tChapter 4. One Thing after Another? -- $tPart Two. A Metaethical Perspective -- $tChapter 5. Troubles with Truth -- $tChapter 6. Possibilities of Progress -- $tChapter 7. Naturalistic Fallacies? -- $tPart Three. A Normative Stance -- $tChapter 8. Progress, Equality, and the Good -- $tChapter 9. Method in Ethics -- $tChapter 10. Renewing the Project -- $tConclusion -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aPrinciples of right and wrong guide the lives of almost all human beings, but we often see them as external to ourselves, outside our own control. In a revolutionary approach to the problems of moral philosophy, Philip Kitcher makes a provocative proposal: Instead of conceiving ethical commands as divine revelations or as the discoveries of brilliant thinkers, we should see our ethical practices as evolving over tens of thousands of years, as members of our species have worked out how to live together and prosper. Elaborating this radical new vision, Kitcher shows how the limited altruistic tendencies of our ancestors enabled a fragile social life, how our forebears learned to regulate their interactions with one another, and how human societies eventually grew into forms of previously unimaginable complexity. The most successful of the many millennia-old experiments in how to live, he contends, survive in our values today.Drawing on natural science, social science, and philosophy to develop an approach he calls "pragmatic naturalism," Kitcher reveals the power of an evolving ethics built around a few core principles-including justice and cooperation-but leaving room for a diversity of communities and modes of self-expression. Ethics emerges as a beautifully human phenomenon-permanently unfinished, collectively refined and distorted generation by generation. Our human values, Kitcher shows, can be understood not as a final system but as a project-the ethical project-in which our species has engaged for most of its history, and which has been central to who we are. 606 $aEthics, Evolutionary 615 0$aEthics, Evolutionary. 676 $a171/.7 700 $aKitcher$b Philip$f1947-$066707 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781979403321 996 $aThe ethical project$93811590 997 $aUNINA