Moral Judgement

Moral Judgment: Contemporary French, German and AngloAmerican Perspectives offers a novel account of the nature and justification of moral judgments by integrating Kantian and Aristotelian reflections on this subject. In the author’s view, moral judgments are ultimately grounded in the normativity of practical identities. In other words, it is by identifying the obligations tied to the multiple dimensions of our identities ( for example, friend, teacher, romantic partner, citizen) that we can ultimately understand how we ought to act. As both Aristotle and Kant recognized, however, doing so requires the acquisition of moral virtues which allow us to better discern practical reasons in concrete situations.

This book is the first to relate analytic reflections on moral judgment to philosophical contributions on this topic stemming from both France and Germany, many of which remain untranslated.