The Autonomy of Morality and the Morality of Autonomy

Author: Stern, Robert

Source: Journal of Moral Philosophy, Volume 6, Number 3, 2009 , pp. 395-415(21)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

This review article is a discussion of Charles Larmore's book The Autonomy of Morality. After presenting an outline of Larmore's position, it focuses on three critical issues: whether Larmore is right to see Kant as an anti-realist; whether he deals adequately with the threat to autonomy posed by the apparent obligatoriness of morality; and whether he establishes that the constructivist idea of practical reason as self-legislating must really be as unconstrained and empty as he suggests.

Keywords: AUTONOMY; KANT; KORSGAARD; LARMORE; MORAL CONSTRUCTIVISM; MORAL REALISM

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/174552409X433445

Publication date: 2009-05-01