Value and Context

NOTE EDITORE

Alan Thomas presents an original study of the status of value and its relation to the contexts in which evaluative claims are justified. He articulates and defends the view that human beings do possess moral and political knowledge, but that it is historically and culturally contextual knowledge in ways that, say, mathematical or chemical knowledge is not. His exposition of a 'cognitivist contextualism' in ethics and politics builds upon contemporary work in epistemology, moral philosophy, and political theory to fashion an argument that is relevant to current debates about culture, modernity, and relativism.

SOMMARIO

1 - The Problem of Moral Knowledge2 - The Case for Cognitivism3 - Values, Norms and the Practical4 - Internal Reasons and Contractualist Impartiality5 - A Critique of Expressivism6 - Non-Objectivism and Internal Realism7 - Epistemological Contextualism8 - A Contextual Model of Moral Justification9 - Tradition Based Moral Enquiry10 - Moral Belief and the Possibility of Error11 - Political Liberalism and Contextualism12 - Political Liberalism and Civic Republicanism

AUTORE

Alan Thomas is Senior Lecturer and Head of Philosophy at the University of Kent.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199587278
• Dimensioni: 234 x 21.0 x 154 mm Ø 568 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 362