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Author Mathies, David Kratz, author

Title Common Grounds without Foundations : a Pragmatic Approach to Ethical Disagreements Across Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Traditions / David Kratz Mathies
Published Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Avoiding Scylla and Charybdis -- Chapter Three: Making Space for the Middle Ground -- Chapter Four: A Common Project of Enquiry -- Chapter Five: The Pragmatic Metatheory -- Chapter Six: Human Rights and Democracy -- Chapter Seven: My Archimedean Point -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary An alternative, fallibilist model of moral reasoning rooted in the American Pragmatic tradition. Additional resources drawn from Chinese philosophy, Jain epistemology, modern philosophy of mathematics, and the Gadamerian hermeneutical tradition serve both to corroborate the argumentation and to provide examples of continuities in reasoning that cross the boundaries of disparate traditions
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)
Subject Reasoning.
PHILOSOPHY -- Religious.
Reasoning
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781463216665
1463216661