Truth and Normativity - An Inquiry into the Basis of Everyday Moral Claims

Informationen zum Autor Iain Brassington is Lecturer in Bioethics at the School of Law, University of Manchester, UK. Klappentext By posing the question of what it is that marks the difference between something like terrorism and something like civil society, Brassington argues that commonsense moral arguments against terrorism or political violence imply that the modern democratic polis might also be morally unjustifiable. In exploring this problem, Brassington identifies a tension between the primary values of truth and normativity in the standard accounts of moral theory. Zusammenfassung Beginning by posing the question of what it is that marks the difference between something like terrorism and something like civil society, this work argues that commonsense moral arguments against terrorism or political violence tend to imply that the modern democratic polis might also be morally unjustifiable. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; 'There are no innocents': why we should be worried about moral philosophy; Independentism: moral truth and the lack thereof; Dependentism: buying truth and pawning normativity; The reality of values: Heidegger and moral thought; Oughtobiography: Heidegger and ethical thought; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Iain Brassington
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2007
• EAN: 9780754658740
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-5874-0
• No. of pages: 186
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking; Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy; Ashgate New Critical Thinking
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education