
Religious Ethics and Constructivism
A Metaethical Inquiry
Kevin Jung(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 11. April 2018
Book
Hardback
210 pages
978-1-138-10341-2 (ISBN)
Description
In metaethics, there is a divide between those who believe that there exist moral facts independently of human interests and attitudes (i.e., moral realists) and those who don't (i.e., antirealists). In the last half century, the field of religious ethics has been inundated with various antirealist schools of moral thought. Though there is a wide spectrum of different positons within antirealism, a majority of antirealist religious ethicists tend to see moral belief as an historically dependent social construction. This has created an environment where doing religious ethics in any metaphysically substantial sense is often seen not only as out of fashion but also as philosophically implausible.
However, there is a lack of clarity as to what antirealists exactly mean by "construction" and what arguments they would use to support their views. Religious Ethics and Constructivism brings together a diverse group of scholars who represent different philosophical and theological outlooks to discuss the merits of constructivism vis-a-vis religious ethics. The essays explore four different kinds of constructivism in metaethics: social (or Hegelian) constructivism, Kantian constructivism, Humean constructivism, and theological constructivism. The overall aim of these essays is to foster dialogue between religious ethicists and moral philosophers, and to open the field religious ethics to the insights that can be provided by contemporary metaethics.
However, there is a lack of clarity as to what antirealists exactly mean by "construction" and what arguments they would use to support their views. Religious Ethics and Constructivism brings together a diverse group of scholars who represent different philosophical and theological outlooks to discuss the merits of constructivism vis-a-vis religious ethics. The essays explore four different kinds of constructivism in metaethics: social (or Hegelian) constructivism, Kantian constructivism, Humean constructivism, and theological constructivism. The overall aim of these essays is to foster dialogue between religious ethicists and moral philosophers, and to open the field religious ethics to the insights that can be provided by contemporary metaethics.
Reviews / Votes
"All told, this book is a good start on an engagement between religious ethics and constructivism and will be particularly useful to religious ethicists interested in constructivism." - Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
471 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-10341-2 (9781138103412)
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Person
Kevin Jung is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, USA. He is the author of Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality: An Intuitionist Account (Routledge, 2014) and Ethical Theory and Responsibility Ethics (2011).
Content
Introduction Kevin Jung 1 Kantian Constructivism, Baseball and Christian Ethics Paul Weithman 2 A Humean Account of What Wrongness Amounts To Kevin Kinghorn 3 Constructivism in Ethics: A View from Hegelian Semantics Molly Farneth 4 What Should Theists Say about Constructivist Positions in Metaethics? Christian B. Miller 5 Kantian Constructivism, Autonomy, and Religious Ethics Charles Lockwood 6 On the Moral Significance of Nature: A Comparison of Hegelian Constructivism and Natural Law David A. Clairmont 7 Grounds of Normativity: Constructivism, Realism, and Theism Kevin Jung