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Moral Disagreements : Classic and Contemporary Readings.
Başlık:
Moral Disagreements : Classic and Contemporary Readings.
Yazar:
Gowans, Christopher W.
ISBN:
9780203134436
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (269 pages)
İçerik:
Cover -- MORAL DISAGREEMENTS -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: debates about moral disagreements -- PART I The historical debate -- 1 Outlines of scepticism -- 2 Natural law and moral disagreements -- 3 Renaissance skepticism -- 4 A dialogue -- 5 Beyond good and evil -- PART II Some voices from anthropology -- 6 Yanomamö: the last days of Eden -- 7 The astonishment of anthropology -- 8 Human rights, human difference: anthropology's contribution to an emancipatory cultural politics -- PART III Challenges to moral objectivity -- 9 The argument from relativity -- 10 Knowledge, science, convergence -- 11 Moral relativity and tolerance -- PART IV Defenses of moral objectivity -- 12 Moral disagreement -- 13 Non-relative virtues: an Aristotelian approach -- 14 Is cultural pluralism relevant to moral knowledge? -- PART V New directions -- 15 The pursuit of the ideal -- 16 The rationality of traditions -- 17 Political liberalism and the idea of an overlapping consensus -- 18 Essence of culture and a sense of history: a feminist critique of cultural essentialism -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet:
Can moral disagreements be rationally resolved? Can universal human rights be defended in face of moral disagreements? The problem of moral disagreement is one of the central problems in moral thinking. It also provides a stimulating stepping-stone to some of the perennial problems of philosophy, such as relativism, scepticism, and objectivity. Moral Disagreements is the first anthology to bring together classic and contemporary readings on this key topic. Clearly divided into five parts; The Historical Debate; Voices from Anthropology; Challenges to Moral Objectivity; Defenses of Moral Objectivity; and New Directions, the anthology presents readings from the following key thinkers: * Sextus, Empiricus, Chagnon, Wong, MacIntyre * Aquinas, Shweder, Brink, Rawls * Montaigne, Turner, Nussbaum, Narayan * Hume, Mackie, Gewirth * Nietzsche, Williams, Berlin. A distinctive feature of the anthology is that it brings philosophers into dialogue with well-known anthropologists. Also included is a comprehensive introduction by Christopher Gowans, introducing the problem of moral disagreement to those coming to the topic for the first time.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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