More on Williams on Ethical Knowledge and Reflection

IF 1.3 2区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY TOPOI-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI:10.1007/s11245-023-09957-8

A. W. Moore

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Abstract This essay is concerned with Bernard Williams’ contention in Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy that, in ethics, reflection can destroy knowledge. I attempt to defend this contention from the charge of incoherence. I do this by taking seriously the idea that ethical knowledge is knowledge from an ethical point of view. There nevertheless remains an issue about whether the contention is consistent with ideas elsewhere in Williams’ own work, in particular with what he says about knowledge in Descartes . In an earlier essay I argued that it is not. In a subsequent essay I indicated that I had changed my mind and gave a more sympathetic account of Williams’ contention. In this essay I set out the issues and say some more about my change of mind.

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摘要:伯纳德·威廉姆斯在《伦理学与哲学的极限》一书中提出，在伦理学中，反思可以摧毁知识。我试图为这一论点辩护，以免受到不连贯的指责。我之所以这样做，是因为我严肃地认为，伦理知识就是从伦理角度出发的知识。然而，关于这一论点是否与威廉姆斯自己作品中的其他观点一致，特别是他对笛卡尔的知识的看法，仍然存在一个问题。在之前的一篇文章中，我认为它不是。在随后的一篇文章中，我表示我已经改变了主意，并对威廉姆斯的论点给出了更有同情心的描述。在这篇文章中，我列出了这些问题，并说了一些关于我的想法的变化。

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