Value and Justification
Value and Justification

Author: Gerald F. Gaus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-07-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521397339

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This important new book takes as its points of departure two questions: What is the nature of valuing? and What morality can be justified in a society that deeply disagrees on what is truly valuable? In Part One, the author develops a theory of value that attempts to reconcile reason with passions. Part Two explores how this theory of value grounds our commitment to moral action. The author argues that rational moral action can neither be seen as a way of simply maximising one's own values, nor derived from reason independent of one's values. Rather, our commitment to the moral point of view is presupposed by our value systems. The book concludes with a defense of liberal political morality.

Value and Justification
Value and Justification

Author: Gerald F. Gaus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-07-27

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780521397339

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Rational moral action can neither be seen as a way of maximising personal values, nor derived from reason independent of them is this study's assertion. It contends that commitment to the moral point of view is presupposed by value systems.Rational moral action can neither be seen as a way of maximising personal values, nor derived from reason independent of them is this study's assertion. It contends that commitment to the moral point of view is presupposed by value systems.

The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding
The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding

Author: Jonathan L. Kvanvig

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-08-21

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1139442287

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Epistemology has for a long time focused on the concept of knowledge and tried to answer questions such as whether knowledge is possible and how much of it there is. Often missing from this inquiry, however, is a discussion on the value of knowledge. In The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding Jonathan Kvanvig argues that epistemology properly conceived cannot ignore the question of the value of knowledge. He also questions one of the most fundamental assumptions in epistemology, namely that knowledge is always more valuable than the value of its subparts. Taking Platos' Meno as a starting point of his discussion, Kvanvig tackles the different arguments about the value of knowledge and comes to the conclusion that knowledge is less valuable than generally assumed. Clearly written and well argued, this 2003 book will appeal to students and professionals in epistemology.

Compromise, Peace and Public Justification
Compromise, Peace and Public Justification

Author: Fabian Wendt

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-11

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 3319288776

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This book explores the morality of compromising. The author argues that peace and public justification are values that provide moral reasons to make compromises in politics, including compromises that establish unjust laws or institutions. He explains how it is possible to have moral reasons to agree to moral compromises and he debates our moral duties and obligations in making such compromises. The book also contains discussions of the sources of the value of public justification, the relation between peace and justice, the nature of modus vivendi arrangements and the connections between compromise, liberal institutions and legitimacy. In exploring the morality of compromising, the book thus provides some outlines for a map of political morality beyond justice.

Kant on Practical Justification
Kant on Practical Justification

Author: Mark Timmons

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-03-28

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0195395689

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This volume of new essays provides a comprehensive and structured examination of Kant's justification of norms, a crucial but neglected theme in Kantian practical philosophy. The essays engage with the view that a successful account of justification of normative claims has to be non-metaphysical and go on to pursue further implications in ethics, legal and political philosophy, and philosophy of religion.

Justification and the Truth-Connection
Justification and the Truth-Connection

Author: Clayton Littlejohn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-06-07

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1107016126

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Presents and defends a bold new approach to the ethics of belief and to resolving the internalism-externalism debate in epistemology.

Beyond "Justification"
Beyond

Author: William P. Alston

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1501720570

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Much of the writing in Anglo-American epistemology in the twentieth century focused on the conditions for beliefs being "justified." In a book that seeks to shift the ground of debate within theory of knowledge, William P. Alston finds that the century-long search for a correct account of the nature and conditions of epistemic justification misses the point. Alston calls for that search to be suspended and for talk of epistemic justification to cease. He proposes instead an approach to the epistemology of belief that focuses on the evaluation of various "epistemic desiderata" that may be satisfied by beliefs.Alston finds that features of belief that are desirable for the goals of cognition include having an adequate basis, being formed in a reliable way, and coherence within bodies of belief. In Alston's view, a belief's being based on an adequate ground and its being formed in a reliable way, though often treated as competing accounts of justification, are virtually identical. Beyond "Justification" also contains discussions of fundamental questions about the epistemic status of principles and beliefs and appropriate responses to various kinds of skepticism.