Value and context the nature of moral and political knowledge / [electronic resource] :
Alan Thomas.
- Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
- viii, 347 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-339) and index.
Part I : Moral knowledge and moral reasons -- The problem of moral knowledge -- The case for cognitivism -- Values, norms, and the practical -- Internal reasons and contractualist impartiality -- Part II : Norm-expressivism and non-objectivism -- A critique of expressivism -- Non-objectivism and internal realism -- Part III : Contextualist moral justification -- Epistemological contextualism -- A contextual model of moral justification -- Tradition based moral enquiry -- Moral belief and the possibility of error -- Part IV : Contextualism in political philosophy -- Political liberalism and contextualism -- Political liberalism and civic Republicanism.
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