A Question of Values: New Canadian Perspectives in Ethics and Political Philosophy (Value Inquiry Book Series, VIBS 40)

Brennan, Samantha/Isaacs, Tracy/Milde, Michael

ISBN 10: 9042001151 / ISBN 13: 9789042001152

Published by Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi. 1997, 1997

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213 (4) p. Paperback (Fine copy.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Question of Values: New Canadian Perspectives in Ethics and Political Philosophy (Value Inquiry Book Series, VIBS 40)
• Publisher: Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi. 1997
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042001151
• ISBN 13: 9789042001152
• Binding: Soft cover

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Synopsis

This volume contains ten chapters, each of which takes up a different question in contemporary moral or political philosophy. The volume has three parts: meta-ethics, issues in freedom and autonomy, and contemporary political philosophy. In the meta-ethical section, the chapters address issues concerning acts and their value, the plausibility of aggregation and counting with respect to the value of human lives, and the role of moral character in causing and explaining moral behavior. In the second section, the chapters take up questions about the connection between moral imagination and a plausible account of integrity, the connection between autonomy and rights to property, and the difficulties facing internalist accounts of autonomy. In the final section, the chapters address issues concerning feminist critiques of Rawlsian liberalism, the limits of liberalism and communitarianism, the importance of understanding Rawls's social contract as a contract for institutions, and the morality of nationalist movements. These chapters reflect a cross-section of the issues concerning value that are of contemporary scholarly interest in Canada and the United States.