Morality and Metaphysics

This book develops an account of morality, freedom, reason, and the self that breaks with leading currents of modern thought.

Charles Larmore is W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professor in the Humanities at Brown University. He is author of thirteen books, including The Morals of Modernity (Cambridge, 1996), Les pratiques du moi (2004), The Autonomy of Morality (Cambridge, 2008), Das Selbst in seinem Verhältnis zu sich und zu anderen (2017), and What is Political Philosophy? (2020).

Introduction; Part I. The Structure and Scope of the Moral Point of View: 1. Reflection and Morality; 2. The Idea of Duties to Oneself; 3. The Ethics of Reading; 4. The Holes in Holism; Part II. Self and World: 5. Kant and the Meanings of Autonomy; 6. Moral Philosophy and Metaphysical Evasion; 7. The Conditions of Human Freedom; 8. Self-Knowledge and Commitment.