【英语】价值和背景：道德和政治知识的本质

书名: Value and Context: the Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge
作者: Alan Thomas (Author)
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA (September 11, 2006)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0198250177
ISBN-13: 978-0198250173

Book Description

Original work on the status of value and its relation to cultural context.
Brings together moral and political theory with epistemology.
Relevant to debates about culture, modernity, and relativism.

Alan Thomas presents an original study of the status of value and its relation to the contexts in which evaluative claims are justified. He articulates and defends the view that human beings do possess moral and political knowledge, but that it is historically and culturally contextual knowledge in ways that, say, mathematical or chemical knowledge is not. His exposition of a 'cognitivist contextualism' in ethics and politics builds upon contemporary work in epistemology, moral philosophy, and political theory to fashion an argument that is relevant to current debates about culture, modernity, and relativism.

Readership: Scholars and graduate students of moral philosophy, epistemologists, political theorists

Review
'Thomas' Value and Context is an impressively ambitious and wide-ranging volume...Thomas engages with a remarkable range of issues...there are several very interesting, insightful discussions in the book...most readers will find much of interest in the development and defence of Thomas' interrelated positions. ' -- Jason Kawall, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

About the Author
Alan Thomas, University of Kent.

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