ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on interpreting work that can specifically show other possibilities for the philosophical genre, as well as the way that these possibilities can form a critique of the dominant model of moral philosophy. The narrowness, exclusivity, and self-affirming nature of the dominant model of moral philosophy finds its source in its initial delineation of the scope of morality. The expected—and required—response of the reader to a work of moral philosophy on the dominant model is a concern to “develop certain ideas, to work out their consequences and systematic relations, to see their rational justification. For on the dominant model, the aim of moral philosophy is to eliminate extraneous information that can be a source of error, not to include such information by insisting on the potential philosophical significance of the presentation of a work. Indeed the concern on the dominant model would be that such an insistence can make the reader vulnerable to errors in judgment.
