Linda Zagzebski, “Exemplarist Moral Theory” (Oxford UP, 2017)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · May 1, 2017 · 59m

Many of the longstanding debates in moral philosophy concern the question of where more theorizing should begin. Some hold that moral theories should start with definitions of moral terms like good; others contend instead that we should begin by identifying the conditions under which an action is right; still others maintain that one must start by developing a procedure for deciding what acts to perform. The thought is that once a theory accounts for whatever is properly first, the rest of morality simply falls into place. In Exemplarist Moral Theory (Oxford University Press, 2017), Linda…