Prospects for a Common Morality / / ed. by Gene Outka, John P. Reeder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Robert Merrihew,; Baier, Annette C.,; Donagan, Alan,; Farley, Margaret A.,; Gewirth, Alan,; Little, David,; Outka, Gene,; Reeder Jr., John P.,; Rorty, Richard,; Stout, Jeffrey,; Yearley, Lee H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Outka, Gene,; Reeder, John P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1992]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Edition: Core Textbook
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

This volume centers on debates about how far moral judgments bind across traditions and epochs. Nowadays such debates appear especially volatile, both in popular culture and intellectual discourse: although there is increasing agreement that the moral and political criteria invoked in human rights documents possess cross-cultural force, many modern and postmodern developments erode confidence in moral appeals that go beyond a local consensus or apply outside a particular community. Often the point of departure for discussion is the Enlightenment paradigm of a common morality, in which it is assumed that certain unchanging beliefs inhere in the structure of human reason. Whereas some thinkers continue to defend this paradigm, others modify it in diverse ways without abandoning entirely the attempt to address a universal audience, and still others jettison virtually all of its distinguishing features. Exhibiting a range of positions Western participants take in these debates, this volume seeks to advance the substance of the debates themselves without prejudging the outcome. Rival assessments of the Enlightenment paradigm are offered from various philosophical and theological points of view. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Robert Merrihew Adams, Annette C. Baier, Alan Donagan, Margaret A. Farley, Alan Gewirth, David Little, Richard Rorty, Jeffrey Stout, and Lee H. Yearley.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. COMMON MORALITY AND THE COMMUNITY OF RIGHTS -- Chapter 2. COMMON MORALITY AND KANT'S ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT -- Chapter 3. THE NATURE AND BASIS OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- Chapter 4. RELIGIOUS ETHICS IN A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY -- Chapter 5. AUGUSTINIANISM AND COMMON MORALITY -- Chapter 6. CLAIMS, RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES -- Chapter 7. FEMINISM AND UNIVERSAL MORALITY -- Chapter 8. FOUNDATIONS WITHOUT FOUNDATIONALISM -- Chapter 9. ON HAVING A MORALITY IN COMMON -- Chapter 10. CONFLICTS AMONG IDEALS OF HUMAN FLOURISHING -- Chapter 11. THE PRIORITY OF DEMOCRACY TO PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter 12. TRUTH AND FREEDOM: A REPLY TO THOMAS MCCARTHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX