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Moral Differences - Truth, Justice, and Conscience in a World of Conflict (Hardcover)
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Moral Differences - Truth, Justice, and Conscience in a World of Conflict (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In a wide-ranging inquiry Richard W. Miller provides new resources
for coping with the most troubling types of moral conflict:
disagreements in moral conviction, conflicting interests, and the
tension between conscience and desires. Drawing on most fields in
philosophy and the social sciences, including his previous work in
the philosophy of science, he presents an account of our access to
moral truth, and, within this framework, develops a theory of
justice and an assessment of the role of morality in rational
choice. In Miller's view, we are often in a position to claim that
our moral judgments are true descriptions of moral facts. But
others, relying on contrary ways of moral learning, would reject
truths that we are in a position to assert, in dissent that does
not depend on irrationality or ignorance of relevant evidence or
arguments. With this mixed verdict on "moral realism," Miller
challenges many received views of rationality, scientific method,
and the relation between moral belief and moral choice. In his
discussion of justice, Miller defends the adequacy, for modern
political choices, of a widely shared demand that institutions be
freely and rationally acceptable to all. Drawing on social research
and economic theories, he argues that this demand has dramatically
egalitarian consequences, even though it is a premise of liberals
and conservatives alike. In the final chapters, Miller investigates
the role and limits of morality in the choice of conduct, arguing
for new perspectives on reason and impartiality. Originally
published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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