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Book Reviews ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY 45 {Summer 2008): 54-60 PIJ BOOK REVIEWS BeyondMoral]udgment. By Alice Crary. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007; pp. xi + 233. $39.95 cloth. Broadly speaking, much of the study of ethics can be characterized as the study of moral judgments. This is because moral thinking and speaking are largely dominated by consid­ erations of moral concepts, and how these concepts may be objectively applied to actions or persons. Beyond Moral]udgment is a collection of essays by philosopher Alice Crary, who is critical of the widespread philosophical preoccupation with moral judgments. Instead, Crary argues, language and expression themselves are embedded in ethics, and thus morality as "judgment" ignores the constitutive nature of ethics for the way that we think, speak, and act. Morality conceived in the abstract distorts ethics as merely the product of thought rather than created by and practiced through actual experiences. Crary details an argument about the moral nature of language that indelibly links ethics to all our activities, and not simply to those for which we apply "moral judgments." Ethics should not, therefore, limit itself to that which can be expressed in the abstract, but is more properly understood as those connections that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Argumentation and Advocacy Taylor & Francis

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ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY 45 {Summer 2008): 54-60 PIJ BOOK REVIEWS BeyondMoral]udgment. By Alice Crary. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007; pp. xi + 233. $39.95 cloth. Broadly speaking, much of the study of ethics can be characterized as the study of moral judgments. This is because moral thinking and speaking are largely dominated by consid­ erations of moral concepts, and how these concepts may be objectively applied to actions or persons. Beyond Moral]udgment is a...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2008 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC
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2576-8476
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1051-1431
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10.1080/00028533.2008.11821696
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ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY 45 {Summer 2008): 54-60 PIJ BOOK REVIEWS BeyondMoral]udgment. By Alice Crary. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007; pp. xi + 233. $39.95 cloth. Broadly speaking, much of the study of ethics can be characterized as the study of moral judgments. This is because moral thinking and speaking are largely dominated by consid­ erations of moral concepts, and how these concepts may be objectively applied to actions or persons. Beyond Moral]udgment is a collection of essays by philosopher Alice Crary, who is critical of the widespread philosophical preoccupation with moral judgments. Instead, Crary argues, language and expression themselves are embedded in ethics, and thus morality as "judgment" ignores the constitutive nature of ethics for the way that we think, speak, and act. Morality conceived in the abstract distorts ethics as merely the product of thought rather than created by and practiced through actual experiences. Crary details an argument about the moral nature of language that indelibly links ethics to all our activities, and not simply to those for which we apply "moral judgments." Ethics should not, therefore, limit itself to that which can be expressed in the abstract, but is more properly understood as those connections that

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Published: Jun 1, 2008

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