Making moral sense : beyond Habermas and Gauthier /

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"Logi Gunnarsson takes issue with the assumption made by many philosophers faced with the problem of reconciling moral norms with a scientific world view, namely that morality must be offered a non-moral justification based on a formal concept of rationality. He argues that the criteria for the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gunnarsson, Logi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Cambridge studies in philosophy.
Subjects:
Habermas, Jürgen.
Gauthier, David P.
Ethics.
Reason.
Ethics
Morale.
Raison.
ethics (philosophy)
reason.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Reason
Ethik
Ethiek.
Humaniora > Filosofi.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Problems. 1. The justificatory crisis of morality. 2. Alternative resolutions of the justificatory crisis. 3. Subjective reasons. 4. Substantive reasons. 5. Overcoming rationalism
  • pt. II. Against Rationalism. 6. Gauthier's contractarianism. 7. From here to pre-social agreement. 8. Habermas' discourse ethics. 9. Discoursing about discourse
  • pt. 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
  • pt. IV. For Particularist Substantivism. 15. Against formalism. 16. Particularist substantivism vs. list-substantivism.

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