Value And Justification
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Author | : Gerald F. Gaus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990-07-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521397339 |
This important new book takes as its points of departure two questions: What is the nature of valuing? and What morality can be justified in a society that deeply disagrees on what is truly valuable? In Part One, the author develops a theory of value that attempts to reconcile reason with passions. Part Two explores how this theory of value grounds our commitment to moral action. The author argues that rational moral action can neither be seen as a way of simply maximising one's own values, nor derived from reason independent of one's values. Rather, our commitment to the moral point of view is presupposed by our value systems. The book concludes with a defense of liberal political morality.
Author | : Gerald F. Gaus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1990-07-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521397339 |
Rational moral action can neither be seen as a way of maximising personal values, nor derived from reason independent of them is this study's assertion. It contends that commitment to the moral point of view is presupposed by value systems.Rational moral action can neither be seen as a way of maximising personal values, nor derived from reason independent of them is this study's assertion. It contends that commitment to the moral point of view is presupposed by value systems.
Author | : Jonathan L. Kvanvig |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2003-08-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139442287 |
Epistemology has for a long time focused on the concept of knowledge and tried to answer questions such as whether knowledge is possible and how much of it there is. Often missing from this inquiry, however, is a discussion on the value of knowledge. In The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding Jonathan Kvanvig argues that epistemology properly conceived cannot ignore the question of the value of knowledge. He also questions one of the most fundamental assumptions in epistemology, namely that knowledge is always more valuable than the value of its subparts. Taking Platos' Meno as a starting point of his discussion, Kvanvig tackles the different arguments about the value of knowledge and comes to the conclusion that knowledge is less valuable than generally assumed. Clearly written and well argued, this 2003 book will appeal to students and professionals in epistemology.
Author | : Fabian Wendt |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2016-07-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3319288776 |
This book explores the morality of compromising. The author argues that peace and public justification are values that provide moral reasons to make compromises in politics, including compromises that establish unjust laws or institutions. He explains how it is possible to have moral reasons to agree to moral compromises and he debates our moral duties and obligations in making such compromises. The book also contains discussions of the sources of the value of public justification, the relation between peace and justice, the nature of modus vivendi arrangements and the connections between compromise, liberal institutions and legitimacy. In exploring the morality of compromising, the book thus provides some outlines for a map of political morality beyond justice.
Author | : Cheryl Neel Noble |
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Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Judgment (Ethics) |
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Author | : Mark Timmons |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2013-03-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199875367 |
This volume of new essays provides a comprehensive and structured examination of Kant's justification of norms, a crucial but neglected theme in Kantian practical philosophy. The essays engage with the view that a successful account of justification of normative claims has to be non-metaphysical and go on to pursue further implications in ethics, legal and political philosophy, and philosophy of religion.
Author | : William P. Alston |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780801473326 |
Much of the writing in Anglo-American epistemology in the twentieth century focused on the conditions for beliefs being "justified." In a book that seeks to shift the ground of debate within theory of knowledge, William P. Alston finds that the century-long search for a correct account of the nature and conditions of epistemic justification misses the point. Alston calls for that search to be suspended and for talk of epistemic justification to cease. He proposes instead an approach to the epistemology of belief that focuses on the evaluation of various "epistemic desiderata" that may be satisfied by beliefs.Alston finds that features of belief that are desirable for the goals of cognition include having an adequate basis, being formed in a reliable way, and coherence within bodies of belief. In Alston's view, a belief's being based on an adequate ground and its being formed in a reliable way, though often treated as competing accounts of justification, are virtually identical. Beyond "Justification" also contains discussions of fundamental questions about the epistemic status of principles and beliefs and appropriate responses to various kinds of skepticism.
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Author | : Rainer Forst |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 074565228X |
Rainer Forst develops a critical theory capable of deciphering the deficits and potentials inherent in contemporary political reality. This calls for a perspective which is immanent to social and political practices and at the same time transcends them. Forst regards society as a whole as an ‘order of justification’ comprising complexes of different norms referring to institutions and corresponding practices of justification. The task of a ‘critique of relations of justification’, therefore, is to analyse such legitimations with regard to their validity and genesis and to explore the social and political asymmetries leading to inequalities in the ‘justification power’ which enables persons or groups to contest given justifications and to create new ones. Starting from the concept of justification as a basic social practice, Forst develops a theory of political and social justice, human rights and democracy, as well as of power and of critique itself. In so doing, he engages in a critique of a number of contemporary approaches in political philosophy and critical theory. Finally, he also addresses the question of the utopian horizon of social criticism.
Author | : Clayton Littlejohn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2012-06-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107016126 |
Presents and defends a bold new approach to the ethics of belief and to resolving the internalism-externalism debate in epistemology.