1st Edition
Discourse and Knowledge Defence of a Collectivist Ethics
By Janna Thompson
Copyright 1998
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ethical disagreement is a fact of social life. We disagree about issues such as abortion, euthanasia, the meaning of justice and the treatment of animals, and our debates often fail to reach a consensus. Some philosophers think that this means there is no objective knowledge about morality. Discourse and Knowledge takes a radically different approach to the defence of ethical rationality. It... Read more
Introducing ethical collectivism, PART I. Ethical disagreement: the problem and its cause, 1. Can ethics be rational? The problem of disagreement, 2. Discourse ethics and the critique of monology, 3. The nature of moral judgment: a moral-psychological inquiry, PART II. Ethical reasoning from a collectivist point of view, 4. Requirements of ethical reasoning: critical discourse, 5. Requirements of ethical reasoning: constructive discourse, PART III. Ethical collectivism and ethical agency, 6. Conscience, authenticity and collective decision-making, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Janna Thompson is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at La Trobe University, She is the author ofJustice and World Order :A Philosophical Inquiry,also published by Routledge.
'An extremely able and well-written book, which I hope and expect will be widely discussed.' - Heythrop Journal
