Logi Gunnarsson

Making Moral Sense

Beyond Habermas and Gauthier

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploration of the rational credentials of morality, informed by both analytical and Continental thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780521042154
• ISBN-10: 0521042151
• Artikelnr.: 23041926

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Problems: 1. The justificatory crisis of morality
2. Alternative resolutions of the justificatory crisis
3. Subjective reasons
4. Substantive reasons
5. Overcoming rationalism
Part II. Against Rationalism: 6. Gauthier's contractarianism
7. From here to pre-social agreement
8. Habermas' discourse ethics
9. Discoursing about discourse
Part III. For the Substantive Approach: 10. Self-understanding and self-assessment
11. The possibility of progress
12. Practical arguments vs. impossibility arguments
13. Evaluation of others
14. Universality without neutrality
Part IV. For Particularist Substantivism: 15. Against formalism
16. Particularist substantivism vs. list-substantivism
Appendix: transcendental vs. universal pragmatics
Bibliography
Index.