Uncommitted Relativism in Modern Theories of Justice
Author: Julius Stone
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 46
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Author: Julius Stone
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 46
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward McWhinney
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 1987-08-25
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9789024735242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ronald H. Fremlin
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 378
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Claudio Corradetti
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-04-15
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 140209986X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen he nished writing, he raised his eyes and looked at me. From that day I have thought about Doktor Pannwitz many times and in many ways. I have asked myself how he really functioned as a man; how he lled his time, outside of the Polymerization and the Indo- Germanic conscience; above all when I was once more a free man, I wanted to meet him again, not from a spirit of revenge, but merely from a personal curiosity about the human soul. Because that look was not one between two men; and if I had known how completely to explain the nature of that look, which came as if across the glass window of an aquarium between two beings who live in different worlds, I would also have explained the essence of the great insanity of the third Germany. PRIMO LEVI [If this is a man, pp. 111–112, in, If this is a man and The truce, trans. S. Woolf, Abacus, London, 1987] If all propositions, even the contingent ones, are resolved into identical propositions, are they not all necessary? My answer is: certainly not. For even if it is certain that what is more perfect is what will exist, the less perfect is nevertheless still possible. In propositions of fact, existence is involved. LEIBNIZ [Samtlic ̈ he schriften und briefe vol VI pt 4 Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1449A VI 4] We live in a rule-constrained world.
Author: Charles Goossens
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780773497603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study argues for a model in which moral truth is presented as truth in the perspective of certain social commitments, while religious truth is interpreted as truth in the perspective of religious experience. It theorizes that relativity need not conflict with universality. Truth from the perspective of the outsider is, therefore, truth without qualification.
Author: Carol Rovane
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0674726979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelativism is a hotly contested doctrine among philosophers, some of whom regard it as neither true nor false but simply incoherent. As Carol Rovane demonstrates in this analytical tour-de-force, the way to defend relativism is not initially by establishing its truth but by clarifying its content. The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism elaborates a doctrine of relativism that has a consistent logical, metaphysical, and practical significance. Relativism is worth debating, Rovane contends, because it bears directly on the moral choices we make in our lives. Three intuitive conceptions of relativism have been influential in philosophical discourse. These include the idea that certain unavoidable disagreements are irresolvable, leading to the conclusion that "both sides are right," and the idea that truth is always relative to context. But the most compelling, Rovane maintains, is the "alternatives intuition." Alternatives are truths that cannot be embraced together because they are not universal. Something other than logical contradiction excludes them. When this is so, logical relations no longer hold among all truth-value-bearers. Some truths will be irreconcilable between individuals even though they are valid in themselves. The practical consequence is that some forms of interpersonal engagement are confined within definite boundaries, and one has no choice but to view what lies beyond those boundaries with what Rovane calls "epistemic indifference." In a very real sense, some people inhabit different worlds--true in themselves, but closed off to belief from those who hold irreducibly incompatible truths.
Author: Serge-Christophe Kolm
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780262277419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Albert A. Anderson
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9789042002494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is concerned with 'how' to think about justice rather than 'what' to think about justice. Its dialectical approach to justice offers a postmodern philosophy which is universal without being absolutist. This stands as an alternative to claims of certainty about justice and to the denials of such certainty in the modern era. to the literary culture of England.