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Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics - A New Understanding of the Moral Good (Hardcover)
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Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics - A New Understanding of the Moral Good (Hardcover)
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A provocative approach to the possibility of philosophical ethics,
this study argues that all moral positions and theories are bound
to fail. Using the dialectical tensions inherent to competing moral
claims as his starting point, Michael Steinmann explains what he
terms the "failure of morality" both in classical and contemporary
positions. As moral claims lead in various ways to contradictions,
the history of morality presents itself as an endless series of
controversies. By using dialectical thinking, which has gone out of
favour in current philosophy, Steinmann shows how we can capture
the limitations of moral theories in a more holistic way. Without
embracing skepticism about moral claims, a non-naturalistic and
non-relativistic understanding of the good emerges as the
fundamental notion of moral thought. Reframing Ethics Through
Dialectics reinvigorates the classical notion of "the absolute
good" as a fruitful conceptual structure through which to
understand competing moral claims, without simply reproducing
neo-Aristotelian literature on the good life. From the perspective
of the good, the study allows us to take non-traditional theories
more seriously, making space for moral philosophy to acknowledge
and embrace the contradictions that all positions incur.
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