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Este libro nos propone que cambiemos la manera en la que hacemos ética. Bernard Williams sostiene que los filósofos no deberían seguir dando apoyo a lo que él llama "el sistema de la moral" ¿una estructura punitiva que pivota sobre la obligación, la censura y la culpa¿, que se sustenta en la construcción de teorías morales, de la obligación, del castigo justo, etc., cada vez más complejas. Deberíamos centrarnos, en cambio, en esta otra cuestión: en qué consistiría vivir nuestras vidas éticas con confianza, de manera legítima.
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely held to be his most important book and is a classic of contemporary philosophy It is assigned on many reading lists on courses on moral philosophy and ethics Ranks alongside Routledge Classics such as Alasdair MacIntyre’s Short History of Ethics and Iris Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of Good. Our edition includes a very useful commentary by Adrian Moore at the end of the book New foreword by Jonathan Lear
Before his death in 2003, Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on the ancient world. This posthumous volume brings together a much wider selection, written over some forty years. His legacy lives on in this masterful work, the first collection ever published of Williams's essays on the history of philosophy. The subjects range from the sixth century B.C. to the twentieth A.D., from Homer to Wittgenstein by way of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Sidgwick, Collingwood, and Nietzsche. Often one would be hard put to say which part is history, which philosophy. Both are involved throughout, because this is the history of philosophy written philosophically. Historical exposition goes hand in hand with philosophical scrutiny. Insights into the past counteract blind acceptance of present assumptions. In his touching and illuminating introduction, Myles Burnyeat writes of these essays: "They show a depth of commitment to the history of philosophy seldom to be found nowadays in a thinker so prominent on the contemporary philosophical scene." The result celebrates the interest and importance to philosophy today of its near and distant past. The Sense of the Past is one of three collections of essays by Bernard Williams published by Princeton University Press since his death. In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument, selected, edited, and with an introduction by Geoffrey Hawthorn, and Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, selected, edited, and with an introduction by A. W. Moore, make up the trio.
What can--and what can't--philosophy do? What are its ethical risks--and its possible rewards? How does it differ from science? In Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, Bernard Williams addresses these questions and presents a striking vision of philosophy as fundamentally different from science in its aims and methods even though there is still in philosophy "something that counts as getting it right." Written with his distinctive combination of rigor, imagination, depth, and humanism, the book amply demonstrates why Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Spanning his career from his first publication to one of his last lectures, the book's previously unpublished or uncollected essays address metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, as well as the scope and limits of philosophy itself. The essays are unified by Williams's constant concern that philosophy maintain contact with the human problems that animate it in the first place. As the book's editor, A. W. Moore, writes in his introduction, the title essay is "a kind of manifesto for Williams's conception of his own life's work." It is where he most directly asks "what philosophy can and cannot contribute to the project of making sense of things"--answering that what philosophy can best help make sense of is "being human." Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline is one of three posthumous books by Williams to be published by Princeton University Press. In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument was published in the fall of 2005. The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy is being published shortly after the present volume.
R. M. Hare afirma en el prefacio: B+Ofrezco esta taxonomia de teorias eticas a todos aquellos que se hallan perdidos en el laberinto moral, entre los cuales estan muchos de mis colegas filosofos. Al igual que aquellos que disertan pomposamente sobre cuestiones morales en los medios de comunicacion, estos colegas filosofos estan perdidos porque no disponen de un mapa del laberinto. Mi libro se propone justamente ofrecer ese mapa.B; Ordenando la etica es un estudio lucido y apasionado que nos ofrece uno de los filosofos morales mas influyentes del siglo acerca de las distintas teorias eticas que hay. Constituye, por otro lado, un repaso definitivo de la posicion etica fundamental del propio Hare. La idea principal del libro es que no vamos a lograr que el pensamiento moral sea objetivo planteando las cuestiones morales como cuestiones de hecho; tal planteamiento conduce inevitablemente al relativismo y nos ata a las culturas y a los lenguajes particulares. Lograremos, mas bien, que sea objetivo poniendo de relieve el caracter universalmente prescriptivo del lenguaje moral, que todas las culturas pueden compartir y, por tanto, utilizarse para resolver sus diferencias morales. Una prescripcion moral objetiva, como vio Kant, consiste en una prescripcion que todos los seres racionales pueden aceptar. R. M. Hare fue White Professor of Moral Philosophy en la Universidad de Oxford desde 1966 hasta 1983, y a partir de entonces Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy en la Universidad de Florida, Gainesville. Tambien es Fellow de la Academia Britanica.
Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major contributions to issues of public concern--all complemented by his many works on ethics, which have important implications for political theory. This new collection of essays, most of them previously unpublished, addresses many of the core subjects of political philosophy: justice, liberty, and equality; the nature and meaning of liberalism; toleration; power and the fear of power; democracy; and the nature of political philosophy itself. A central theme throughout is that political philosophers need to engage more directly with the realities of political life, not simply with the theories of other philosophers. Williams makes this argument in part through a searching examination of where political thinking should originate, to whom it might be addressed, and what it should deliver. Williams had intended to weave these essays into a connected narrative on political philosophy with reflections on his own experience of postwar politics. Sadly he did not live to complete it, but this book brings together many of its components. Geoffrey Hawthorn has arranged the material to resemble as closely as possible Williams's original design and vision. He has provided both an introduction to Williams's political philosophy and a bibliography of his formal and informal writings on politics. Those who know the work of Bernard Williams will find here the familiar hallmarks of his writing--originality, clarity, erudition, and wit. Those who are unfamiliar with, or unconvinced by, a philosophical approach to politics, will find this an engaging introduction. Both will encounter a thoroughly original voice in modern political theory and a searching approach to the shape and direction of liberal political thought in the past thirty-five years.