Value and context :

Thomas, Alan, Dr.

Value and context : the nature of moral and political knowledge / Alan Thomas. - Oxford : Clarendon, 2006. - viii, 347 p. ; 24 cm.

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-339) and index.

Part I : Moral knowledge and moral reasons -- The problem of moral knowledge -- The case for cognitivism -- Values, norms, and the practical -- Internal reasons and contractualist impartiality -- Part II : Norm-expressivism and non-objectivism -- A critique of expressivism -- Non-objectivism and internal realism -- Part III : Contextualist moral justification -- Epistemological contextualism -- A contextual model of moral justification -- Tradition based moral enquiry -- Moral belief and the possibility of error -- Part IV : Contextualism in political philosophy -- Political liberalism and contextualism -- Political liberalism and civic Republicanism.

9780198250173 (hbk.) : Đ45.00 0198250177 (hbk.) : Đ45.00

2006017202

GBA652387 bnb


Ethics.
Political science--Philosophy.

BJ1012 / .T53 2006

170.42