Special Issue
A Symposium: Morality Reconsidered
Justin D. Garrison and Ryan R. Holston
At the annual meeting of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters in June 2014 Claes Ryn gave a speech that challenged a tendency in traditional Western moral speculation and argued for a moral and philosophical reform. The speech and the ensuing controversy gave the editors the idea of a symposium on the issues involved. They invited commentaries on Ryn’s manuscript and asked him to respond to them.
Contents
How Desperate Should We Be?, 5
Claes G. Ryn
Decision Procedures, Moral Philosophy, and Despair:
The Response of Virtue Ethics and the Connoisseur, 31
Kenneth B. McIntyre
David Hume and the
Origins of Modern Rationalism, 44
Donald Livingston
Tradition, Principle, and the Rule of Law:
A Response to Claes Ryn, 70
Bruce P. Frohnen
Political Morality Reconsidered:
A Rejoinder 86
Claes G. Ryn