The morality of gay rights : an exploration in political philosophy / Carlos A. Ball.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ball, Carlos A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay rights--Philosophy.

Gay rights.

Homosexuality--Moral and ethical aspects.

Homosexuality.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 273 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: Why Morality? 1

1 Neutral Liberalism 15

1. Rawls's Political Liberalism 17

2. Rawls from a Gay Rights Perspective 22

3. Dworkin's Liberal Equality and Moral Bracketing 30

4. The Later Dworkin: Individual Ethics and the Liberal Society 37

2 Pragmatic Liberalism 41

1. Rorty's Pragmatism 42

2. Rorty from a Gay Rights Perspective 48

3. Posner's Pragmatism and Human Sexuality 58

4. Rational Man as Moral Man 64

3 Moral Liberalism 75

1. Needs, Capabilities, and the Leading of Full Human Lives 77

2. Relationships, Attachments, and Autonomy 91

3. Moral Liberalism and Gay Rights 100

4 Communitarianism 139

1. Sandellian Values and Communities 141

2. The Role of Community in the Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men 145

3. Walzer and Justice 151

4. Internal Social Criticism: Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting by Lesbians and Gay Men 155

5 Postmodernism 171

1. Foucault and Sexual Ethics 174

2. Agency Versus Autonomy in Foucault's Late Writings 185

3. Codes of Conduct and a Gay and Lesbian Sexual Ethic 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-261) and index.

ISBN:

0415931401

041593141X

OCLC:

49711699