Human Factual Knowledge

213 pages. cover wornThis flexible, new series provides the only introductory material organized a round such well-defined issues What conditions justify exceptions to moral princ iples? What are the possibilities of belief in God being rational? Each volume c ontains eight to ten selections averaging between fifteen and twenty pages, and an introduction which gives a clear statement of the problem, points out a varie ty of possible approaches, and locates each reading in the structure the editor has erected. The readings are both classical and contemporary; and all directly relate to each other, one criticizing and advancing alternatives to the other. S elections were chosen because of their merit and comprehensibility. The series, therefore, includes a volume devoted to questions about justice and equality, se veral volumes on substantive moral issues rather than meta-ethical questions, an d a volume that treats many different approaches to the evaluation of religious belief, contemporary as well as classical. …