Background
Larmore, Charles Everett was born on March 23, 1950 in Baltimore. Son of Floyd Evans and Jane Larmore.
(Larmore aims to recover three forms of moral complexity t...)
Larmore aims to recover three forms of moral complexity that have often been neglected by moral and political philosophers. First, he argues that virtue is not simply the conscientious adherence to principle. Rather, the exercise of virtue apply. He argues - and this is the second pattern of complexity - that recognizing the value of constitutive ties with shared forms of life does not undermine the liberal ideal of political neutrality toward differing ideals of the good life. Finally Larmore agrues for what he calls the heterogeneity of morality. Moral thinking need not be exclusively deontological or consequentialist, and we should recognize that the ultimate sources of moral value are diverse. The arguments presented here do not attack the possibility of moral theory. But in addressing some of the central issues of moral and political thinking today thay attempt to restore to that thinking greater flexibility and a necessary sensitivity to our common experience.
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Larmore, Charles Everett was born on March 23, 1950 in Baltimore. Son of Floyd Evans and Jane Larmore.
AB, Harvard University, 1972; postgraduate, Ecole NOrmale Superieure, Paris, 1972-1973; postgraduate, Universitat Munster, Federal Republic of Germany, 1976-1977; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1978.
His most recent work focuses on the nature of reason and reasons. He previously taught at the University of Chicago as the Chester Doctorate. Tripp Professor and the Raymond West. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor as well as at Columbia University. He received his Bachelor of Arts at Harvard (1972) and his Doctor of Philosophy at Yale (1978).
Grand Prix de Philosophie from the Académie française (2004) for Les Pratiques du Moi".
(Larmore aims to recover three forms of moral complexity t...)
He is noted for his writings on political liberalism as well as on various topics in moral philosophy (moral realism, the nature of the self) and in the history of philosophy from the 16th to the 20th centuries (including such figures as Montaigne, Descartes, Bayle, Kant, Hölderlin, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Sartre).
Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Amey Begley, October 26, 1984. Children: Nicholas, Julia.