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The Idea of an Ethical Community / John Charvet.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501733710
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170 20
LOC classification:
  • BJ1012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Possibility of Ethical Life -- Part One: Self-Interest -- 1. Desire, Reason, and Value -- 2. Prudential Rationality -- 3. Personal Identity -- 4. Autonomy -- Part Two: Morality -- 5. The Self-Interest Theory of Morality -- 6. Moral Rationalism -- 7. Utilitarianism -- Part Three: Community -- 8. Morality as a Common Good -- 9. Political Association -- 10. The Principles of Just Cooperation -- Index
Summary: John Charvet presents an original philosophical theory that transcends the liberal-communitarian debate and justifies universally valid principles of prudential and moral reason.The Idea of an Ethical Community rejects contemporary positions—the liberal theorist's politically neutral stance toward alternative conceptions of good on the one hand, and the communitarian's moral relativism on the other. Charvet espouses what he calls an "antirealist" view of shared norms and maintains that although reason cannot be unconditionally authoritative, there can be conditionally definitive rational principles. His book advances a view of the ethical community consistent both with the contractarian idea of John Rawls's early work A Theory of Justice and a due emphasis on communitarian values. But he grounds this view of the ethical community in a theory of the autonomous person and a theory of value.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Possibility of Ethical Life -- Part One: Self-Interest -- 1. Desire, Reason, and Value -- 2. Prudential Rationality -- 3. Personal Identity -- 4. Autonomy -- Part Two: Morality -- 5. The Self-Interest Theory of Morality -- 6. Moral Rationalism -- 7. Utilitarianism -- Part Three: Community -- 8. Morality as a Common Good -- 9. Political Association -- 10. The Principles of Just Cooperation -- Index

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John Charvet presents an original philosophical theory that transcends the liberal-communitarian debate and justifies universally valid principles of prudential and moral reason.The Idea of an Ethical Community rejects contemporary positions—the liberal theorist's politically neutral stance toward alternative conceptions of good on the one hand, and the communitarian's moral relativism on the other. Charvet espouses what he calls an "antirealist" view of shared norms and maintains that although reason cannot be unconditionally authoritative, there can be conditionally definitive rational principles. His book advances a view of the ethical community consistent both with the contractarian idea of John Rawls's early work A Theory of Justice and a due emphasis on communitarian values. But he grounds this view of the ethical community in a theory of the autonomous person and a theory of value.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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