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Moral Vision: How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking

Moral Vision: How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking

Cady, Duane L.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0742544931
ISBN13: 9780742544932
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Apr 25 2005
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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