Speech and Morality : On the Metaethical Implications of Speaking

Name: Speech and Morality
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198712725
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ISBN: 9780198712725

by Terence Cuneo

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0198712723

ISBN-13 9780198712725

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 7th, 2014

Print length 274 Pages

Weight 596 grams

Dimensions 16.20 x 24.20 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: Philosophy of language Ethics & moral philosophy Ethics and moral philosophy

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Terence Cuneo presents a new argument for moral realism. According to the normative theory of speech, speech acts are generated by an agent's altering her normative position with regard to her audience. In doing so she takes on rights and responsibilities, some of which are moral and objective: these are a necessary condition of speech.

Terence Cuneo develops a novel line of argument for moral realism. The argument he defends hinges on the normative theory of speech, according to which speech acts are generated by an agent''s altering her normative position with regard to her audience, gaining rights, responsibilities, and obligations of certain kinds. Some of these rights, responsibilities, and obligations, Cuneo suggests, are moral. And these moral features are best understood along realist lines, in part because they explain how it is that we can speak. If this is right, a necessary condition of being able to speak is that there are moral rights, responsibilities, and obligations of a broadly realist sort.

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