LEADER 03948nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910457444603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $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 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthics, Evolutionary. 676 $a171/.7 700 $aKitcher$b Philip$f1947-$066707 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457444603321 996 $aThe ethical project$92472992 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01079nam0 22002651i 450 001 UON00342150 005 20231205104303.200 100 $a20091030d1976 |0itac50 ba 101 $aita 102 $aIT 105 $a|||| ||||| 200 1 $aQuali imprese e quali uomini per la società degli anni '80$fPiero Bontadini ...[et al.]$gpresentazione di Carlo Pastore 210 $aMilano$cFranco Angeli$dc1976 215 $a141 p.$d22 cm. 606 $aItalia$xProduzione$3UONC074023$2FI 620 $aIT$dMilano$3UONL000005 700 1$aBONTADINI$bPiero$3UONV192100$0108939 702 1$aPastore$bCarlo$3UONV192101 712 $aAngeli$3UONV277541$4650 801 $aIT$bSOL$c20260116$gRICA 899 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO E ARCHIVIO STORICO$2UONSI 912 $aUON00342150 950 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO E ARCHIVIO STORICO$dSI PUB G 0288 $eSI SPS3628 5 0288 996 $aQuali imprese e quali uomini per la società degli anni '80$91361346 997 $aUNIOR