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Moral Skepticisms (Hardcover, New)
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Moral Skepticisms (Hardcover, New)
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All contentious moral issues--from gay marriage to abortion and
affirmative action--raise difficult questions about the
justification of moral beliefs. How can we be justified in holding
on to our own moral beliefs while recognizing that other
intelligent people feel quite differently and that many moral
beliefs are distorted by self-interest and by corrupt cultures?
Even when almost everyone agrees--e.g. that experimental surgery
without consent is immoral--can we know that such beliefs are true?
If so, how?
These profound questions lead to fundamental issues about the
nature of morality, language, metaphysics, justification, and
knowledge. They also have tremendous practical importance in
handling controversial moral questions in health care ethics,
politics, law, and education. Sinnott-Armstrong here provides an
extensive overview of these difficult subjects, looking at a wide
variety of questions, including: Are any moral beliefs true? Are
any justified? What is justified belief? The second half of the
book explores various moral theories that have grappled with these
issues, such as naturalism, normativism, intuitionism, and
coherentism, all of which are attempts to answer moral skepticism.
Sinnott-Armstrong argues that all these approaches fail to rule out
moral nihilism--the view that nothing is really morally wrong or
right, bad or good. Then he develops his own novel theory,
--"moderate Pyrrhonian moral skepticism"--which concludes that some
moral beliefs can be justified out of a modest contrast class but
no moral beliefs can be justified out of an extreme contrast class.
While explaining this original position and criticizing
alternatives, Sinnott-Armstrong provides awide-ranging survey of
the epistemology of moral beliefs.
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