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This book provides a wide-ranging, systematic, and comprehensive
approach to the moral philosophy of John Dewey, one of the most
important philosophers of the 20th century. It does so by focusing
on his greatest achievement in this field: the Ethics he jointly
published with James Hayden Tufts in 1908 and then republished in a
heavily revised version in 1932. The essays in this volume are
divided into two distinct parts. The first features essays that
provide a running commentary on the chapters of the 1932 Ethics
written by Dewey. Each chapter is introduced, situated within a
historical perspective, and then its main achievements are
highlighted and discussed. The second part of the book interprets
the Ethics and demonstrates its contemporary relevance and
vitality. The essays in this part situate the Ethics in the broader
interpretive frameworks of Dewey's philosophy, American pragmatism,
and 20th-century moral theory at large. Taken together, these
essays show that, far from being a mere survey of moral theories,
the 1932 Ethics presents the theoretical highpoint in Dewey's
thinking about moral philosophy. This book features contributions
by some of the most influential Dewey scholars from North America
and Europe. It will be of keen interest to scholars and students of
American pragmatism, ethics and moral philosophy, and the history
of 20th-century philosophy.
This book provides a wide-ranging, systematic, and comprehensive
approach to the moral philosophy of John Dewey, one of the most
important philosophers of the 20th century. It does so by focusing
on his greatest achievement in this field: the Ethics he jointly
published with James Hayden Tufts in 1908 and then republished in a
heavily revised version in 1932. The essays in this volume are
divided into two distinct parts. The first features essays that
provide a running commentary on the chapters of the 1932 Ethics
written by Dewey. Each chapter is introduced, situated within a
historical perspective, and then its main achievements are
highlighted and discussed. The second part of the book interprets
the Ethics and demonstrates its contemporary relevance and
vitality. The essays in this part situate the Ethics in the broader
interpretive frameworks of Dewey's philosophy, American pragmatism,
and 20th-century moral theory at large. Taken together, these
essays show that, far from being a mere survey of moral theories,
the 1932 Ethics presents the theoretical highpoint in Dewey's
thinking about moral philosophy. This book features contributions
by some of the most influential Dewey scholars from North America
and Europe. It will be of keen interest to scholars and students of
American pragmatism, ethics and moral philosophy, and the history
of 20th-century philosophy.
Practice, Judgment, and the Challenge of Moral and Political
Disagreement: A Pragmatist Account offers an account of moral and
political disagreement, explaining its nature and showing how we
should deal with it. In so doing it strikes a middle path between
troublesome dualisms such as those of realism and relativism,
rationality and imagination, power and justification. To do so, the
book draws on the resources of the pragmatist tradition, claiming
that this tradition offers solutions that have for the most part
been neglected by the contemporary debate. To prove this claim, the
book provides a large account of debates within this tradition and
engages its best solutions with contemporary philosophical theories
such as perfectionism, critical theory, moral realism, and
liberalism. The question of the nature of disagreement is addressed
both at the general theoretical level and more specifically with
reference to moral and political forms of disagreement. At the more
general level, the book proposes a theory of practical rationality
based upon the notion of rationality as inquiry. At the second,
more specific, level, it aims to show that this conception can
solve timely problems that relates to the nature of moral and
political reasoning.
The aim of this book is to provide a fresh, wider, and more
compelling account of democracy than the one we usually find in
conventional contemporary political theory. Telling the story of
democracy as a broad societal project rather than as merely a
political regime, Frega delivers an account more in tune with our
everyday experience and ordinary intuitions, bringing back into
political theory the notion that democracy denotes first and
foremost a form of society, and only secondarily a specific
political regime. The theoretical shift accomplished is major.
Claiming that such a view of democracy is capable of replacing the
mainstream categories of justice, freedom and non-domination in
their hegemonic function of all-encompassing political concepts,
Frega then argues for democracy as the broader normative framework
within which to rethink the meaning and forms of associated living
in all spheres of personal, social, economic, and political life.
Drawing on diverse traditions of American pragmatism and critical
theory, as well as tackling political issues which are at the core
of contemporary theoretical debates, this book invites a rethinking
of political theory to one more concerned with the political
circumstances of social life, rather than remaining confined in the
narrowly circumscribed space of a theory of government.
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