Morality in a Realistic Spirit: Essays for Cora Diamond : Routledge : 9781032177281 : 1032177284 : 30 Sep 2021 : This unique collection of essays has two main purposes. The first is to honour the pioneering work of Cora Diamond, one of the most important living moral philosophers and certainly the most important working in the tradition inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The second is to develop and deepen a picture of moral philosophy by carrying out new work in what Diamond has called the realistic spirit. The contributors in this book advance a first-order moral attitude that pays close attention to actual moral life and experience. Their essays, inspired by Diamond's work, take up pressing challenges in Anglo-American moral philosophy, including Diamond's defence of the concept ?human being' in ethics, her defence of literature as a source of moral thought that does not require external sanction from philosophy, her challenge to the standard ?fact/value' dichotomy, and her explorati