Truth and Normativity: An Inquiry Into the Basis of Everyday Moral Claims

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 01.01.2007 - 186 Seiten
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.

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The Blurred Borders
20
Moral Truth and the Lack Thereof
33
Kant and his Heirs
45
The Problem of Formalism
53
Reason and the Moral Will
64
Buying Truth and Pawning Normativity
71
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123
829
133
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140
Heidegger and Ethical Thought
145
Instrumentalism and the a priori
171
Bibliography
177
Index
185
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Iain Brassington is Lecturer in Bioethics at the School of Law, University of Manchester, UK.

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