Patterns of Moral Complexity

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Larmore aims to recover three forms of moral complexity that have often been neglected by moral and political philosophers. First, he argues that virtue is not simply the conscientious adherence to principle. Rather, the exercise of virtue apply. He argues - and this is the second pattern of complexity - that recognizing the value of constitutive ties with shared forms of life does not undermine the liberal ideal of political neutrality toward differing ideals of the good life. Finally Larmore agrues for what he calls the heterogeneity of morality. Moral thinking need not be exclusively deontological or consequentialist, and we should recognize that the ultimate sources of moral value are diverse. The arguments presented here do not attack the possibility of moral theory. But in addressing some of the central issues of moral and political thinking today thay attempt to restore to that thinking greater flexibility and a necessary sensitivity to our common experience.

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"...a solid piece of work--clearly written, admirably free of cant, historically informed, and analytically ambitious. It is a fine contribution to moral theory." Bart Schultz, Ethics January 1989

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Moral Judgment - An Aristotelian Insight	p. 1
Kant on examples	p. 1
The centrality of judgment	p. 5
The puzzling nature of judgment	p. 14
Theory and practice	p. 19
The Limits of Neo-Aristotelianism	p. 22
MacIntyre's indictment of modernity	p. 23
The objectivity and autonomy of morals	p. 27
A modernist malgre lui	p. 36
Liberalism and the Neutrality of the State	p. 40
In praise of bureaucracy	p. 40
What is neutrality?	p. 42
Neutrality and classical utilitarianism	p. 48
Why neutrality?	p. 50
Ideal conversations	p. 55
Equal respect	p. 59
Practical limits	p. 67
The Political Order and Personal Ideals	p. 69
Liberal justice as a modus vivendi	p. 70
Kantian liberalism	p. 77
Morality and moral psychology	p. 85
Political Romanticism	p. 91
Herder: pluralism and expressivism	p. 93
Hegel's idea of Sittlichkeit	p. 99
Marx's critique of liberalism	p. 107
Rawls's ambiguities and neo-romanticism	p. 118
The Heterogeneity of Morality	p. 131
Butler's problem	p. 134
Partiality	p. 139
The ethics of conviction and the ethics of responsibility	p. 144
Conclusion	p. 151
Notes	p. 154
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 191
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