The Limits of Moral Authority
Dale Dorsey
Abstract
In this book, the author considers one of the most fundamental questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent are the demands of morality normatively authoritative over us and our lives? Must we conform to moral requirements? Most who have addressed this question have treated the normative significance of morality as simply a fact to be explained. But Dorsey argues that this traditional assumption is misguided. According to Dorsey, not only are we not required to conform to moral demands, conforming to morality’s demands will not always even be normatively permissible—moral behavior can be ... More
Keywords: morality, normativity, ethics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198728900 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2016 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198728900.001.0001 |
