Moral Vision

How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking

Duane L. Cady (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

134 Seiten

2005
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-4494-9 (ISBN)

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What is moral reasoning? Are we being reasonable when we make moral decisions if we cannot supply compelling arguments, criteria, necessary and sufficient conditions, decisive empirical evidence and the like? In Moral Vision, Duane L. Cady critiques the contemporary inclination to model reason after textbook natural science, noting that our values are not conclusions of proofs or derivations but frameworks in which such reasoning may take place, frameworks that we struggle to understand and explain. Cady goes on to suggest a rich conception of reason beyond that of stereotypical science, one that reflects aesthetic, historical, experiential, and pluralistic aspects of moral thinking, one that widens and deepens descriptions of how moral thinking typically happens.

This book will be of interest to anyone wondering what philosophy may contribute to our contemporary struggle with conflicting values and value collisions, both personal as well as cultural.

Duane L. Cady is professor of philosophy at Hamline University in Minnesota.

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Ethics and Rationality
Chapter 3 Moral Frameworks
Chapter 4 Experience in Context
Chapter 5 Aesthetic Aspects of Ethical Thought
Chapter 6 Morals and Metaphors
Chapter 7 Ethics and Pluralism
Chapter 8 Moral Thinking
Chapter 9 Afterword: Diversity, Relativism, and Nonviolence

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.5.2005
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 228 mm
Gewicht	209 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	0-7425-4494-X / 074254494X
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-4494-9 / 9780742544949
Zustand	Neuware