Making Moral Sense : Beyond Habermas and Gauthier.

By: Gunnarsson, LogiMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge Studies in PhilosophyPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (300 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780511151491Subject(s): EthicsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making Moral Sense : Beyond Habermas and GauthierDDC classification: 170 LOC classification: BJ1012 .G86 2000Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I Problems -- 1 The justificatory crisis of morality -- 2 Alternative resolutions of the justificatory crisis -- 1 SUBJECTIVIST RATIONALISM -- 2 INTER-SUBJECTIVIST RATIONALISM -- 3 THE SUBSTANTIVE APPROACH -- 3 Subjective reasons -- 1 SUBJECTIVISM -- The subjectivist interpretation -- The non-subjectivist interpretation -- 2 SUBJECTIVISM AND THE JUSTIFICATORY CRISIS -- 4 Substantive reasons -- 1 EXTERNAL REASONS AS REASONS INTERNAL TO ETHICS -- 2 THE METAPHYSICAL OBJECTION -- 3 THE BOOTSTRAPPING OBJECTION -- 5 Overcoming rationalism -- 1 THE RETURN OF RATIONALISM -- 2 OVERVIEW -- PART II Against rationalism -- 6 Gauthier's contractarianism -- 1 THE MORAL ALTERNATIVES PROBLEM -- 2 THE SOLUTION OF THE MORAL ALTERNATIVES PROBLEM -- 3 GAUTHIER'S INITIAL SITUATION -- 7 From here to pre-social agreement -- 1 THE PURE UTILITY MAXIMIZER'S INITIAL SITUATION -- 2 THE NORMATIVITY OBJECTION -- 3 THE TAKING ADVANTAGE OBJECTION -- 4 THE AGENCY OBJECTION -- 5 THE MANNA FROM HEAVEN OBJECTION -- 6 THE SEPARATENESS OF PERSONS OBJECTION -- 8 Habermas' discourse ethics -- 1 THE BASIC IDEAS -- 2 TWO VERSIONS OF THE DISCOURSE PRINCIPLE -- 3 THE AIM OF THE RATIONALISTIC ARGUMENT -- 4 THE STRUCTURE AND STATUS OF THE ARGUMENT -- 5 WEAK AND STRONG RATIONALISM -- 9 Discoursing about discourse -- 1 THE DISCOURSING UTILITARIAN -- SD is assumed -- SD is not assumed -- 2 HABERMAS' SECOND FORMULATION -- 3 REHG'S FORMULATION -- PART III For the substantive approach -- 10 Self-understanding and self-assessment -- 1 THE PROBLEM OF FALSE SELF-ASSESSMENT -- 2 ASSESSIVE AND NON-ASSESSIVE SELF-UNDERSTANDING -- 3 SELF-UNDERSTANDING AND SUBJECTIVISM -- 4 OBJECTIONS -- 5 A PRACTICAL ARGUMENT -- 11 The possibility of progress -- 1 SUBSTANTIVE CRITIQUE.
2 SUBSTANTIVE CRITIQUE AND SELF-ASSESSMENT -- 3 IS JUSTICE SPECIAL? -- 4 THE PROBLEM OF FALSE SELF-ASSESSMENT: SUMMARY -- 5 THE PROBLEM OF THE CATEGORICAL FORCE OF MORALITY -- 12 Practical arguments vs. impossibility arguments -- 1 LIVING OUTSIDE STRONG EVALUATION -- 2 MAKING SENSE OF OUR LIVES -- 3 THE BOOTSTRAPPING OBJECTION (AGAIN) -- 13 Evaluation of others -- 1 PUTTING CRUELTY BEFORE PRAGMATIC CONTRADICTIONS -- 2 MORAL CRITICISM AND RATIONAL WARRANT -- 3 FOUR OBJECTIONS -- 14 Universality without neutrality -- 1 REJECTING NEUTRALITY -- 2 RORTY'S ETHNOCENTRISM -- 3 SUBSTANTIVE TRANS-CULTURAL CRITERIA -- 4 SUMMARY OF PART III -- PART IV For particularist substantivism -- 15 Against formalism -- 1 FORMALISM -- 2 SUBSTANTIVE VS. FORMAL REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM -- 3 AGAINST FORMAL REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM -- 4 AN EPISTEMIC GOAL FOR SUBSTANTIVE EVALUATORS -- 16 Particularist substantivism vs. list-substantivism -- 1 TWO VERSIONS OF SUBSTANTIVISM -- 2 THE IRREDUCIBLE PLURALITY OF SUBSTANTIVE REASONS -- 3 A SUBSTANTIVE NON-MORAL JUSTIFICATION OF MORALITY? -- Appendix Transcendental vs. universal pragmatics -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: An exploration of the rational credentials of morality, informed by both analytical and Continental thought.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I Problems -- 1 The justificatory crisis of morality -- 2 Alternative resolutions of the justificatory crisis -- 1 SUBJECTIVIST RATIONALISM -- 2 INTER-SUBJECTIVIST RATIONALISM -- 3 THE SUBSTANTIVE APPROACH -- 3 Subjective reasons -- 1 SUBJECTIVISM -- The subjectivist interpretation -- The non-subjectivist interpretation -- 2 SUBJECTIVISM AND THE JUSTIFICATORY CRISIS -- 4 Substantive reasons -- 1 EXTERNAL REASONS AS REASONS INTERNAL TO ETHICS -- 2 THE METAPHYSICAL OBJECTION -- 3 THE BOOTSTRAPPING OBJECTION -- 5 Overcoming rationalism -- 1 THE RETURN OF RATIONALISM -- 2 OVERVIEW -- PART II Against rationalism -- 6 Gauthier's contractarianism -- 1 THE MORAL ALTERNATIVES PROBLEM -- 2 THE SOLUTION OF THE MORAL ALTERNATIVES PROBLEM -- 3 GAUTHIER'S INITIAL SITUATION -- 7 From here to pre-social agreement -- 1 THE PURE UTILITY MAXIMIZER'S INITIAL SITUATION -- 2 THE NORMATIVITY OBJECTION -- 3 THE TAKING ADVANTAGE OBJECTION -- 4 THE AGENCY OBJECTION -- 5 THE MANNA FROM HEAVEN OBJECTION -- 6 THE SEPARATENESS OF PERSONS OBJECTION -- 8 Habermas' discourse ethics -- 1 THE BASIC IDEAS -- 2 TWO VERSIONS OF THE DISCOURSE PRINCIPLE -- 3 THE AIM OF THE RATIONALISTIC ARGUMENT -- 4 THE STRUCTURE AND STATUS OF THE ARGUMENT -- 5 WEAK AND STRONG RATIONALISM -- 9 Discoursing about discourse -- 1 THE DISCOURSING UTILITARIAN -- SD is assumed -- SD is not assumed -- 2 HABERMAS' SECOND FORMULATION -- 3 REHG'S FORMULATION -- PART III For the substantive approach -- 10 Self-understanding and self-assessment -- 1 THE PROBLEM OF FALSE SELF-ASSESSMENT -- 2 ASSESSIVE AND NON-ASSESSIVE SELF-UNDERSTANDING -- 3 SELF-UNDERSTANDING AND SUBJECTIVISM -- 4 OBJECTIONS -- 5 A PRACTICAL ARGUMENT -- 11 The possibility of progress -- 1 SUBSTANTIVE CRITIQUE.

2 SUBSTANTIVE CRITIQUE AND SELF-ASSESSMENT -- 3 IS JUSTICE SPECIAL? -- 4 THE PROBLEM OF FALSE SELF-ASSESSMENT: SUMMARY -- 5 THE PROBLEM OF THE CATEGORICAL FORCE OF MORALITY -- 12 Practical arguments vs. impossibility arguments -- 1 LIVING OUTSIDE STRONG EVALUATION -- 2 MAKING SENSE OF OUR LIVES -- 3 THE BOOTSTRAPPING OBJECTION (AGAIN) -- 13 Evaluation of others -- 1 PUTTING CRUELTY BEFORE PRAGMATIC CONTRADICTIONS -- 2 MORAL CRITICISM AND RATIONAL WARRANT -- 3 FOUR OBJECTIONS -- 14 Universality without neutrality -- 1 REJECTING NEUTRALITY -- 2 RORTY'S ETHNOCENTRISM -- 3 SUBSTANTIVE TRANS-CULTURAL CRITERIA -- 4 SUMMARY OF PART III -- PART IV For particularist substantivism -- 15 Against formalism -- 1 FORMALISM -- 2 SUBSTANTIVE VS. FORMAL REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM -- 3 AGAINST FORMAL REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM -- 4 AN EPISTEMIC GOAL FOR SUBSTANTIVE EVALUATORS -- 16 Particularist substantivism vs. list-substantivism -- 1 TWO VERSIONS OF SUBSTANTIVISM -- 2 THE IRREDUCIBLE PLURALITY OF SUBSTANTIVE REASONS -- 3 A SUBSTANTIVE NON-MORAL JUSTIFICATION OF MORALITY? -- Appendix Transcendental vs. universal pragmatics -- Bibliography -- Index.

An exploration of the rational credentials of morality, informed by both analytical and Continental thought.

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