Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index.

"There are no innocents" : why we should be worried about moral philosophy. Making moral arguments ; The moral terrorist? ; Other terrorists ; Terrorism and the democratic state : unelected affinities ; The ship of state and its galley slaves ; The blurred borders ; Opening the question -- Independentism : moral truth and the lack thereof. Independentism and dependentism ; Realist independentism ; Realist independentism and queer science ; The rejection of realist independentism ; Idealist independentism : Kant and his heirs ; The importance of the will ; The problem of formalism ; The metaphysics of reason and the problem of taxonomy ; Reason and the moral will ; Independentism and commonsense morality -- Dependentism : buying truth and pawning normativity. If you know what's good for you : eudaimonism ; Souls, naturally ; Cosmology as a moral tool ; In defence of politics ; Eudaimonism, cosmology and essentialism ; Moral feelings ; Instrumentalism and the a priori ; Morality and the snark -- The reality of values : Heidegger and moral thought. Morality and commonsense ; Heidegger versus morality? ; Truth and reality in moral statements ; How to philosophise (with) a hammer ; Appearance and values ; Categorisation and apophansis ; Problems with the account ; Truth and the possibility of moral error ; The embeddedness of norms ; The problem of caprice ; Publicity, commonsense and critique -- Oughtobiography : Heidegger and ethical thought. Agency and Dasein : the break from Descartes ; Writing about ethics ; Pondering the abode : authenticity and finitude ; Pondering the abode : ethics and infinity ; Morality and authenticity : the problem of Nazi virtues ; Ethics and krisis ; Self, world and other ; Democracy, terrorism and existence ; What is wrong with terrorism(?)

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