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Value and context : the nature of moral and political knowledge / Alan Thomas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon, 2006.Description: viii, 347 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780198250173 (hbk.) :
  • 0198250177 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170.42 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ1012 .T53 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Formerly CIP. Uk.

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.

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