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What Makes Us Moral? On the capacities and conditions for being moral

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Editors:
  1. Bert Musschenga

    1. Faculty of Philosophy, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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  2. Anton van Harskamp

    1. of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy and Department,, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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  • Deals with the role of social and historical factors of morality
  • Discusses whether animals can be said to have a morality
  • Contains revealing case-studies, e.g., on the Holocaust, on terrorism, and on Vico
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 31)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. What Makes Us Moral? An Introduction

    • Bert Musschenga
    Pages 1-13

  3. Morality, Evolution and Rationality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Rationality and Deceit: Why Rational Egoism Cannot Make Us Moral

      • Alejandro Rosas
      Pages 17-30

    3. Two Problems of Cooperation

      • Katharine Browne
      Pages 31-50

    4. The Importance of Commitment for Morality: How Harry Frankfurt’s Concept of Care Contributes to Rational Choice Theory

      • Catherine Herfeld, Katrien Schaubroeck
      Pages 51-72

    5. Quantified Coherence of Moral Beliefs as Predictive Factor for Moral Agency

      • Markus Christen, Thomas Ott
      Pages 73-96

  4. Morality and the Continuity Between Human and Nonhuman Primates

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Animal Morality and Human Morality

      • Bert Musschenga
      Pages 99-116

    3. Two Kinds of Moral Competence: Moral Agent, Moral Judge

      • Florian Cova
      Pages 117-130

    4. Humean Moral Motivation

      • Andrés Luco
      Pages 131-150

    5. Whispering Empathy: Transdisciplinary Reflections on Research Methodology

      • Harry Wels
      Pages 151-165

  6. Religion and (Im)Morality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
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    2. Atheism and the Basis of Morality

      • Stephen Maitzen
      Pages 257-269
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This book addresses the question of what it means to be moral and which capacities one needs to be moral. It questions whether empathy is a cognitive or an affective capacity, or perhaps both. As most moral beings behave immorally from time to time, the authors ask which factors cause or motivate people to translate their moral beliefs into action? Specially addressed is the question of what is the role of internal factors such as willpower, commitment, character, and what is the role of external, situational and structural factors? The questions are considered from various (disciplinary) perspectives.​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Philosophy, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Bert Musschenga

  • of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy and Department,, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Anton van Harskamp

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