Morality and Modernity

By: Ross Poole

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Paperback | 13 June 1991 | Edition Number 1

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This book argues that the modern world calls into existence certain conceptions of morality, but also destroys the grounds for taking them seriously. Modernity both needs morality and makes it impossible. Morality and Modernity has a broader focus than is usual within moral philosophyin that it spells out the social presuppositions of the various conceptions of morality at work in the modern world. This enables it to cast new light on some familiar topics in contemporary moral philosophy - utilitarianism, Kantianism, liberalism, rights, virtue and moral realism, as well as some less familiar ones - power, gender, nihilism, and nationalism.It also provides a critical account of the most importantmoral responses to modernity, ranging from Mandeville, Hume, Adam Smith, and Kant, through Marx, Nietzsche and Weber to Gewirth, Rawls, Habermas and MacIntyre. Ross Poole believes that if moral philosophy is to reassert its traditional ambition to stake out a position on the important socialissues of the day, it must take seriously its own social content. A moral philosophy is an aspect of social life, and it is only as such that it can be mobilisedand brought c5ritically to bear on existing social practices.

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"Poole has written a remarkably insightful, lucid, and challenging book that provides a comprehensive socioeconomic understanding for the development of problems with morality since the 17th century. . . . Important reading for professionals, students at all levels, and the educated public." -"Choice ." . . his expositions of key thinkers and texts are admirably lucid and his diagnoses pointed and clear." -"Ethics

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