Prospects for a Common Morality - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0691020930 ISBN 13: 9780691020938

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1992

Riassunto

This volume centers on debates about how far moral judgments bind across traditions and epochs. Nowadays such debates appear especially volatile, both in popular culture and intellectual discourse: although there is increasing agreement that the moral and political criteria invoked in human rights documents possess cross-cultural force, many modern and postmodern developments erode confidence in moral appeals that go beyond a local consensus or apply outside a particular community. Often the point of departure for discussion is the Enlightenment paradigm of a common morality, in which it is assumed that certain unchanging beliefs inhere in the structure of human reason. Whereas some thinkers continue to defend this paradigm, others modify it in diverse ways without abandoning entirely the attempt to address a universal audience, and still others jettison virtually all of its distinguishing features. Exhibiting a range of positions Western participants take in these debates, this volume seeks to advance the substance of the debates themselves without prejudging the outcome. Rival assessments of the Enlightenment paradigm are offered from various philosophical and theological points of view. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Robert Merrihew Adams, Annette C. Baier, Alan Donagan, Margaret A. Farley, Alan Gewirth, David Little, Richard Rorty, Jeffrey Stout, and Lee H. Yearley.

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Recensione

"Eleven distinguished ethicists weigh in on the question of whether there is a universal morality, relevant to all cultures and traditions by virtue of the universal structure of reason and conscience in human beings everywhere."--First Things

Contenuti

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
Ch. 1	Common Morality and the Community of Rights	29
Ch. 2	Common Morality and Kant's Enlightenment Project	53
Ch. 3	The Nature and Basis of Human Rights	73
Ch. 4	Religious Ethics in a Pluralistic Society	93
Ch. 5	Augustinianism and Common Morality	114
Ch. 6	Claims, Rights, Responsibilities	149
Ch. 7	Feminism and Universal Morality	170
Ch. 8	Foundations without Foundationalism	191
Ch. 9	On Having a Morality in Common	215
Ch. 10	Conflicts among Ideals of Human Flourishing	233
Ch. 11	The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy	254
Ch. 12	Truth and Freedom: A Reply to Thomas McCarthy	279
	Contributors	291
	Index	293

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691020930
• ISBN 13: 9780691020938
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 302
• Redattore: Outka Gene H., Reeder John P.
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile