Prospects for a common morality / Gene Outka and John P. Reeder, Jr., editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Outka, Gene H.

Reeder, John P., 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume centers on debates about how far moral judgments bind across traditions and epochs. Nowadays such debates appear especially volatile, both in popular culture and intellectual discourse: although there is increasing agreement that the moral and political criteria invoked in human rights documents possess cross-cultural force, many modern and postmodern developments erode confidence in moral appeals that go beyond a local consensus or apply outside a particular community. Often the point of departure for discussion is the Enlightenment paradigm of a common morality, in which it is assumed that certain unchanging beliefs inhere in the structure of human reason. Whereas some thinkers continue to defend this paradigm, others modify it in diverse ways without abandoning entirely the attempt to address a universal audience, and still others jettison virtually all of its distinguishing features. Exhibiting a range of positions Western participants take in these debates, this volume seeks to advance the substance of the debates themselves without prejudging the outcome. Rival assessments of the Enlightenment paradigm are offered from various philosophical and theological points of view. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Robert Merrihew Adams, Annette C. Baier, Alan Donagan, Margaret A. Farley, Alan Gewirth, David Little, Richard Rorty, Jeffrey Stout, and Lee H. Yearley.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION / Outka, Gene / Reeder Jr., John P.

Chapter 1. COMMON MORALITY AND THE COMMUNITY OF RIGHTS / Gewirth, Alan

Chapter 2. COMMON MORALITY AND KANT'S ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT / Donagan, Alan

Chapter 3. THE NATURE AND BASIS OF HUMAN RIGHTS / Little, David

Chapter 4. RELIGIOUS ETHICS IN A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY / Adams, Robert Merrihew

Chapter 5. AUGUSTINIANISM AND COMMON MORALITY / Outka, Gene

Chapter 6. CLAIMS, RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES / Baier, Annette C.

Chapter 7. FEMINISM AND UNIVERSAL MORALITY / Farley, Margaret A.

Chapter 8. FOUNDATIONS WITHOUT FOUNDATIONALISM / Reeder Jr., John P.

Chapter 9. ON HAVING A MORALITY IN COMMON / Stout, Jeffrey

Chapter 10. CONFLICTS AMONG IDEALS OF HUMAN FLOURISHING / Yearley, Lee H.

Chapter 11. THE PRIORITY OF DEMOCRACY TO PHILOSOPHY / Rorty, Richard

Chapter 12. TRUTH AND FREEDOM: A REPLY TO THOMAS MCCARTHY / Rorty, Richard

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612751646

9781400806034

1400806038

9781282751644

1282751646

9781400820818

1400820812

OCLC:

707068791