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| Abbreviations | ||
| Introduction | 3 | |
| I | Morality | |
| 1 | Morality and Oneself | 13 |
| 2 | Morality, Lives, and Acts | 27 |
| 3 | Morality and Maximization | 45 |
| 4 | Morality and Importance | 61 |
| II | Moral Theory | |
| 5 | What Do Antitheorists Mean by Theory? | 85 |
| 6 | Did Aristotle and Kant Produce Moral "Theories"? | 99 |
| 7 | What Should Moral Theory Be? | 125 |
| 8 | Why We Need Moral Theories | 143 |
| Notes | 163 | |
| Bibliography | 211 | |
| Index | 225 |
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Alesia Cabral
reviewed Morality and Moral Theory: A Reappraisal and Reaffirmation on December 07, 2018
Morality and Moral Theory
Anybody expecting to read this book for some kind of metaphysical buzz will be disappointed. Whitehead's approach is highly technical involving four dimensional geometry, event particles, "sigma primes" and a host of other self defined technical terms. Among these terms (ie a "duration") just when I felt I had grasped his meaning I came upon what to me was an inconsistency. Since it is ANW I can only conclude I hadn't grasped his meaning in the first place. He definitely pushes against the tendency to over simplification such as the separation of time and space as well as the bifurcation of nature - His motto at the end of one chapter being "seek simplicity and distrust it". To think these were a series of lectures is mind boggling but actually I found listening to the reading on Librivox more palatable than actually reading the text. I suspect the reason is that while listening you may miss something and not stopping to re-listen what you DO get is the flow of the text and an understanding of the general meaning of the text which is about as far as I can muster. A more academic mind (which I lack) would probably prefer to read the text more analytically. I found the summaries of his chapters the most enlightening - the technicalities in the middle sometimes made me want to give up. I am pleased I managed to complete the book and look forward to having my second crack at "Process and Reality"
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