| How We Get Along |
| J. David Velleman |
| Area 1 Meta-ethics |
| Area 2 Philosophy of Action |
| Keywords metaethics action Kant |
| http://ssrn.com/abstract=1008501 |
| This is the manuscript of a book on meta-ethics. From the Introduction: Maybe the grounding of morality lies closer to the social surface than philosophers like to think, neither in the structure of practical reason nor in a telos of human nature but rather in our mundane ways of muddling through together — that is, in how we get along. Our ways of getting along must themselves rest on the bedrock of practical reason and human nature, but they may form, as it were, a layer of topsoil without which morality could never take root. If so, then asking how moral norms can sprout straight out of our rationality or humanity may be futile. |
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