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1 de feb. de 2010 · In one of his most audacious statements, Williams asserts that morality is ‘a special system, a particular variety of ethical thought’. He then sets out to ‘explain what I take it to be, and why we would be better off without it’ (italics added) (Williams, 1985, p. 77; hereafter ELP).The first of these statements requires us to ask how ‘ethics’ is distinguished from ‘morality’.
22 de feb. de 2004 · Truth and Truthfulness presents a powerful challenge to the fashionable belief that truth has no value, but equally to the traditional faith that its value guarantees itself. Bernard Williams shows us that when we lose a sense of the value of truth, we lose a lot both politically and personally, and may well lose everything.
Bernard Williams explora y reflexiona acerca de los problemas más complejos de la filosofía contemporánea y plantea nuevas ideas sobre temas centrales como el relativismo, el objetivismo y la posibilidad de un conocimiento ético. Esta edición incluye comentarios al texto a cargo del filósofo A. W. Moore. Teorema. Serie mayor.
22 de jun. de 2003 · Sir Bernard Williams, influyente filófoso inglés, murió a causa de un fallo cardiaco el pasado día 10 en Italia, donde se encontraba de vacaciones con
16 de dic. de 2023 · Introduction. Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (1929–2003) was an English philosopher born in Essex. Educated at Oxford, Williams went on to become a leading figure in twentieth-century philosophy, influencing the fields of moral philosophy, personal identity and the self, moral psychology, and political theories of equality.
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. Bernard Williams - 1985 - London: Fontana. By the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is not only widely acknowledged to be his most important book, but also hailed a contemporary classic of moral philosophy.
Professor Sir Bernard Williams was one of the greatest twentieth-century British philosophers, renowned especially for his work in moral philosophy. He was born on 21 September 1929. After studying Classics at Oxford and graduating in 1951, he held various academic posts in Oxford, London, Cambridge and Berkeley, before returning to Oxford as ...
