Truth and normativity : an inquiry into the basis of everyday moral claims /
By posing the question of what it is that marks the difference between something like terrorism and something like civil society, Brassington argues that commonsense moral arguments against terrorism or political violence imply that the modern democratic polis might also be morally unjustifiable. In...
| Основен автор: | Brassington, Iain. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
℗♭2007.
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| Серия: |
Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=270443 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Truth and normativity. |
Съдържание:
- "There are no innocents" : why we should be worried about moral philosophy. Making moral arguments ; The moral terrorist? ; Other terrorists ; Terrorism and the democratic state : unelected affinities ; The ship of state and its galley slaves ; The blurred borders ; Opening the question
- Independentism : moral truth and the lack thereof. Independentism and dependentism ; Realist independentism ; Realist independentism and queer science ; The rejection of realist independentism ; Idealist independentism : Kant and his heirs ; The importance of the will ; The problem of formalism ; The metaphysics of reason and the problem of taxonomy ; Reason and the moral will ; Independentism and commonsense morality
- Dependentism : buying truth and pawning normativity. If you know what's good for you : eudaimonism ; Souls, naturally ; Cosmology as a moral tool ; In defence of politics ; Eudaimonism, cosmology and essentialism ; Moral feelings ; Instrumentalism and the a priori ; Morality and the snark
- The reality of values : Heidegger and moral thought. Morality and commonsense ; Heidegger versus morality? ; Truth and reality in moral statements ; How to philosophise (with) a hammer ; Appearance and values ; Categorisation and apophansis ; Problems with the account ; Truth and the possibility of moral error ; The embeddedness of norms ; The problem of caprice ; Publicity, commonsense and critique
- Oughtobiography : Heidegger and ethical thought. Agency and Dasein : the break from Descartes ; Writing about ethics ; Pondering the abode : authenticity and finitude ; Pondering the abode : ethics and infinity ; Morality and authenticity : the problem of Nazi virtues ; Ethics and krisis ; Self, world and other ; Democracy, terrorism and existence ; What is wrong with terrorism.