Reasonable disagreement : a theory of political morality

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Reasonable disagreement : a theory of political morality
著者: Christopher McMahon 1945- author.
主題: Reasoning; Political ethics
描述: The structure of reasonable disagreement -- The problem -- Disagreement about matters of empirical fact -- Disagreement among epistemic peers -- Reasonable disagreement and political morality -- Moral realism and reasonable political disagreement -- Moral nominalism -- Williams's subjectivism -- Descriptive judgment -- Evaluative judgment -- Moral judgment -- Meta-ethical details -- Agreement and disagreement -- The pressure to agree -- Deliberation and disagreement -- Conceptual identity -- Broad fairness -- The zone of reasonable disagreement -- Resolving reasonable disagreement -- Authority and democracy -- Changing minds -- Dominance -- Mill on moral truth -- The evolution of moral normativity -- Localism -- Relativism and localism -- Borders and migration -- Judging without contact -- The west and the rest -- The future of political morality -- Morality and history -- Historical knowledge -- Judging the past -- Hierarchy -- Rectifying past wrongs -- Apology -- Conclusion.
This book examines the ways in which reasonable people can disagree about the requirements of political morality. Christopher McMahon argues that there will be a 'zone of reasonable disagreement' surrounding most questions of political morality. Moral notions of right and wrong evolve over time as new zones of reasonable disagreement emerge out of old ones; thus political morality is both different in different societies with varying histories, and different now from what it was in the past. McMahon explores this feature of his theory in detail and traces its implications for the possibility of making moral judgments about other polities, past or present. His study sheds light on an important and often overlooked aspect of political life, and will be of interest to a wide range of readers in moral and political philosophy and in political theory.
出版者: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
建立日期: 2009
格式: 1 online resource (viii, 204 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)..
語言: 英文
識別號: ISBN9780511596742 (ebook)
資源來源: NUTN ALEPH

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Reasonable disagreement : a theory of political morality

Christopher McMahon 1945- author. 2009

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