Practice, Judgment, and the Challenge of Moral and Political Disagreement

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Western philosophy, from c 190

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Lexington books

Practice, Judgment, and the Challenge of Moral and Political Disagreement : Lexington Books : 9780739170670 : 0739170678 : 05 Apr 2012 : Practice, Judgment, and the Challenge of Moral and Political Disagreement: A Pragmatist Account offers an account of moral and political disagreement, explaining its nature and showing how we should deal with it. In so doing it strikes a middle path between troublesome dualisms such as those of realism and relativism, rationality and imagination, power and justification. To do so, the book draws on the resources of the pragmatist tradition, claiming that this tradition offers solutions that have for the most part been neglected by the contemporary debate. To prove this claim, the book provides a large account of debates within this tradition and engages its best solutions with contemporary philosophical theories such as perfectionism, critical theory, moral realism, and liberalism. The question of the nature of disagreement is addressed both at the ge

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