This book shows how our moral concepts are nourished by awe, reverence and various forms of love. These ways of encountering the world and other human beings inform our sense of good and evil, of justice and injustice, of obligation, of fidelity and betrayal, and of many virtues and vices. In ways moral philosophy commonly misses, this book shows moral understanding is broadened and deepened by what is disclosed only in these forms of encounter.

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'...an intriguing, original grounding for morality...Cordner is a pleasure to read, for he develops his theses through beautifully crafted meditations upon incidents from literature and life. His many fine distinctions and intriguing insights about moral action and motivation will broaden and deepen any reader's understanding of morality...his book is a lyrically written, persuasive evocation of an important strand in the tapestry (or tangle) that constitutes contemporary moral theory.' - Howard J. Curzer, The Philosophical Quarterly

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University of Melbourne, Australia

Christopher Cordner

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CHRISTOPHER CORDNER is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. His main philosophical interest is ethics, on which he has published articles in a range of journals.

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Book Title: Ethical Encounter
Book Subtitle: The Depth of Moral Meaning
Authors: Christopher Cordner
Series Title: Swansea Studies in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230509177
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-78636-9Published: 14 December 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-41847-3Published: 01 January 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50917-7Published: 14 December 2001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 208
Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Aesthetics

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