1st Edition
Truth and Normativity An Inquiry into the Basis of Everyday Moral Claims
By Iain Brassington
Copyright 2007
196 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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Beginning by posing the question of what it is that marks the difference between something like terrorism and something like civil society, Brassington argues that commonsense moral arguments against terrorism or political violence tend to imply that the modern democratic polis might also be morally unjustifiable. At the same time, the commonsense arguments in favour of something like a modern... Read more
Contents: Preface; 'There are no innocents': why we should be worried about moral philosophy; Independentism: moral truth and the lack thereof; Dependentism: buying truth and pawning normativity; The reality of values: Heidegger and moral thought; Oughtobiography: Heidegger and ethical thought; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Iain Brassington is Lecturer in Bioethics at the School of Law, University of Manchester, UK.
