Moral Vision

How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking

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Moral Vision

How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking

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What is moral reasoning? Are we being reasonable when we make moral decisions if we cannot supply compelling arguments, criteria, necessary and sufficient conditions, decisive empirical evidence and the like? In Moral Vision, Duane L. Cady critiques the contemporary inclination to model reason after textbook natural science, noting that our values are not conclusions of proofs or derivations but frameworks in which such reasoning may take place, frameworks that we struggle to understand and explain. Cady goes on to suggest a rich conception of reason beyond that of stereotypical science, one that reflects aesthetic, historical, experiential, and pluralistic aspects of moral thinking, one that widens and deepens descriptions of how moral thinking typically happens.

This book will be of interest to anyone wondering what philosophy may contribute to our contemporary struggle with conflicting values and value collisions, both personal as well as cultural.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Ethics and Rationality
Chapter 3 Moral Frameworks
Chapter 4 Experience in Context
Chapter 5 Aesthetic Aspects of Ethical Thought
Chapter 6 Morals and Metaphors
Chapter 7 Ethics and Pluralism
Chapter 8 Moral Thinking
Chapter 9 Afterword: Diversity, Relativism, and Nonviolence

Product details

Published Mar 29 2005
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 134
ISBN 9798216324522
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Series Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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