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[[Moral Progress by Philip Kitcher]] reads, based on both their blurbs, like a continuation of [[The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher]], exploring how actual ethical changes have occurred in time. Moves towards method rather than big-T truth (in line w social evolution perspective of the Ethical Project) and strengthens the pragmatism in pragmatic naturalism. 10yrs between the 2 books. Blurb mentions progressing away from something rather than to something, which chimes neatly with the evolutionary perspective of moving away from being hindered by a selective pressure. The attention to moral progress as method brings it closer to my notion of [[Ethics As A Practice (EaaP) 20200819161530]]
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Our human values, Kitcher shows, can be understood not as a final system but as a project-the ethical project-in which our species has engaged for most of its history, and which has been central to who we are.
The book title [[The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher]] reflect the ongoing nature of our evolving human values. It is not a final system, but a collective project that continually defines our sociality and through it our humanity.
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an approach he calls "pragmatic naturalism," Kitcher reveals the power of an evolving ethics built around a few core principles
Author calls it this ethics to make evolutionary social groupings work 'pragmatic naturalism'. I get those terms at first glance, but if the functioning of social structures is its aim, a term closer to relationships focused ethics, and evolution might be more telling, next to the clearly involved pragmatism. This term sounds closer to a fork of natural law ethics, which it doesn't seem to be, to indicate its early origins and evolutionary past. evolutionaryrelationalethics?
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