Our Knowledge of Right and Wrong, Volume 4This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality. |
Contents
FirstOrderSecondOrder | 13 |
Is Knowledge of Morality a Delusion? | 20 |
Some Preliminary Distinctions | 36 |
Moral Judgments as A Priori | 69 |
Moral Judgments as Synthetic | 108 |
Ideal Observer Theories | 151 |
Gods Commands and Mans Duties | 201 |
Morality and Moral Codes | 229 |
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