ABSTRACT

This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in the world. The main thesis is that, before any reference to values or to criteria about good and evil—that is, before any reference to specific ethical outlooks—one should explain the very materiality of what necessarily constitutes the ‘moral world’. These claims are substantiated by means of a text- centered interpretation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in dialogue with contemporary moral realism. The book concludes with a critique of Heidegger’s, Gadamer’s and Arendt’s approaches to Aristotle’s ethics.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I Aristotle and Kant: Actions within the Moral World

chapter 1|23 pages

Action, prakton and Visibility

chapter 2|22 pages

Phronetic Perception

chapter 3|20 pages

Aristotelian Constructivism

part |2 pages

Part II Phenomenological Voices and their Dissonances

chapter 5|16 pages

Towards a Phenomenological Moral Realism

chapter 7|14 pages

Gadamer and Practical Rationality

chapter 8|16 pages

Arendt on Action and Performances

chapter |20 pages

Notes

chapter |14 pages

Selected Bibliography