ISBN:
9783319022857
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy Series v.33
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DDC:
179.9
Keywords:
Practical reason
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Abstract:
In what amounts to a radical revision of the concept of rationality that challenges conventional analytic and continental views alike, this book explores the overlooked yet vital theoretical relationships between R. M. Hare, Alan Gewirth, and Jürgen Habermas.
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Rethinking Rationality -- 2.1 The Reconciliation of Ethical Rationalism, Ethical Naturalism, Virtue Ethics, and the Biological and Social Sciences -- 2.1.1 Reasserting the Compatibility of the Methodologies of Value Theory and of the Sciences -- 2.1.2 Reasserting the Compatibility of Virtue Ethics and Deontological Rationalism -- 2.2 The Failure of Axiological Anti-foundationalism -- 2.2.1 The Ideological Dangers of Anti-foundationalism -- 2.2.2 The Problem of Indeterminacy: Amartya Sen´s Theory of Justice -- 2.2.3 Karl-Otto Apel´s Rebuttal to the Münchhausen Trilemma and Its Relevance to Value Theory -- 2.3 The Concept of Rationality: Toward a Universal Model -- 2.3.1 Concepts, Conceptions, and the Possibility of a Universal Model -- 2.3.2 ``Humaniqueness,´´ Social Cognitive Theory, and a Neuroscientific Account of Judgment -- 2.3.3 Inadequacies and Limitations of Competing Accounts -- 2.3.4 The Necessary Methodological Preconditions of Universal Applicability -- 2.3.5 The Model Explicated and Analyzed -- 2.3.6 Consequences for a Doctrine of Liberation -- 2.4 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 3: Rationality and Dialectical Necessity -- 3.1 Prescription, Preference, and Dialectical Contingence -- 3.1.1 A Refutation of Harean Anti-descriptivism -- 3.1.2 Hare´s Dialectical Method -- 3.2 Developing a Method of Justification -- 3.2.1 The Problem of a Justificatory Method -- 3.2.2 Problems in Walton´s Model of Justification -- 3.2.3 The Justificatory Model Explicated and Analyzed -- 3.3 A Sound Positive Account, Part I: An Analysis of Gewirth´s Ethical Rationalism -- 3.3.1 The Basic Elements of Gewirthian Theory -- 3.3.2 The Premises and Conclusion Reconstructed and Analyzed -- 3.3.3 Applications to Animal Ethics and the Principle of Proportionality.
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