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Title

Moral discourse in a pluralistic world / Daniel Vokey.

Author

Vokey, Daniel.

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2001.

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Description

x, 373 pages; 23 cm

Summary

How shall we collectively confront the global problems we face? In [this book, the author] argues that it is possible for people from very different religious, political, philosophical, and cultural traditions to talk productively about the issues that divide them ... By clarifying the ways in which genuine agreement on moral issues can be pursued through moral discourse, [he also] provides a ... framework for addressing the political, social and environmental problems arising from unresolved moral conflict - Dust jacket.

Subject

• Ethics
• Cultural pluralism > Moral and ethical aspects
• Ethics
• ethics (philosophy)
• Cultural pluralism > Moral and ethical aspects
• Ethik
• Pluralismus
• Postmoderne
• Ethiek
• Relativisme
• Plurale samenleving
• Ethische aspecten

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-352) and index.

Contents

Practical Judgments and Moral Points of View -- Moral Traditions and Moral Scepticism -- Moral Discourse -- The Rationalism-Relativism Debate -- Beyond Objectivism and Relativism -- Different Rules: The Incommensurability of Methods -- Different "Worlds," Different "Truths": The Incommensurability of Meaning -- Different Objectives, Different Problems: The Incommensurability of Standards -- The Rationality Of Traditions -- Dialectical Justification: Internal Debates -- Narrative and Dialectic -- Dialectical Justification: External Debates -- Converging Views -- The Search For Wide Reflective Equilibrium -- The Rationality of Traditions: Further Questions -- World Views and Ways of Life -- The Search for Wide Reflective Equilibrium -- Moral Traditions And Dialectical Debate -- The Ethics of Virtue -- Moral Traditions -- The Rationality of Moral Traditions -- The Case for the Ethics of Virtue -- The Intellectualist Bias -- Practical Rationality and Moral Education -- Moral Theory and Moral Practice -- Intrinsic Goodness and the Virtues -- Reasons Of The Heart -- Apprehensions of Intrinsic Moral Value -- The Ethics of Virtue Revisited -- Moral Discourse -- The Search for a Satisfactory Moral Point of View -- Narrative and Moral Enquiry -- Moral Discourse in a Pluralistic World.

ISBN

• 0268034664
• 9780268034665

LCCN

2001000524

OCLC

• ocm45830083
• 45830083
• SCSB-1232084

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library