PBK - FEB 1989, 298 "READING" PAGES

Product Description: Over the past 15 years, Rainer Forst has developed a fundamental research programme within the tradition of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. The core of this programme is a moral account of the basic right of justification that humans owe to one another as rational beings...read more

Product Description: Emergencies are extreme events which threaten to cause massive disruption to society and negatively affect the physical and psychological well-being of its members. They raise important practical and theoretical questions about how we should treat each other in times of ’crisis’...read more

Product Description: Dieser Band versammelt die wichtigsten Arbeiten, in denen Peter Stemmer die kontraktualistische Moralkonzeption aus Handeln zugunsten anderer weiterentwickelt. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, anhand welcher Kriterien eine Moral, wie sie sein sollte, von falschen oder schlechten Moralen unterschieden werden kann...read more

Product Description: Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple ethical perspectives and values, making it difficult to isolate the higher-order principles on which to base a theory of justice. Rising up to meet this challenge, Rainer Forst, a leading member of the Frankfurt School's newest generation of philosophers, conceives of an "autonomous" construction of justice founded on what he calls the basic moral right to justification...read more

Book by Ahern, Jerry

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Product Description: This wide-ranging collection of essays by one of the foremost medical ethicists in the United States explores the claim that justification in ethics, whether of matters of theory or practice, involves achieving coherence or "reflective equilibrium" (as Rawls has called it) between our moral and nonmoral beliefs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: PBK - FEB 1989, 298 "READING" PAGES