Making Moral Sense : Beyond Habermas and Gauthier.

Making Moral Sense : Beyond Habermas and Gauthier.

Logi Gunnarsson's innovative book on the rational credentials of morality includes substantial critical engagement with thinkers from two very different philosophical traditions, and is notable for its clear and succinct account of Habermas' discourse ethics.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gunnarsson, Logi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Cambridge studies in philosophy.
Subjects:
Ethics.
Reason.
ethics (philosophy)
reason.
Ethics
Reason
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 The justificatory crisis of morality; 2 Alternative resolutions of the justificatory crisis; 3 Subjective reasons; 4 Substantive reasons; 5 Overcoming rationalism; 6 Gauthier's contractarianism; 7 From here to pre-social agreement; 8 Habermas' discourse ethics; 9 Discoursing about discourse; 10 Self-understanding and self-assessment; 11 The possibility of progress; 12 Practical arguments vs. impossibility arguments; 13 Evaluation of others; 14 Universality without neutrality; 15 Against formalism; 16 Particularist substantivism vs. list-substantivism.
  • Appendix Transcendental vs. universal pragmaticsBibliography; Index.

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