Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics : A New Understanding of the Moral Good, ...

by Steinmann, Michael

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Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics : A New Understanding of the Moral Good, Hardcover by Steinmann, Michael, ISBN 1350286885, ISBN-13 9781350286887, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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' to substantiate specific claims. As moral claims lead in various ways to contradictions, eventually, they replace one another interchangeably. By using dialectical thinking, 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. This allows us to take non-traditional theories more seriously, making space for us to acknowledge and embrace the contradictions that all moral positions incur. To tie the argument together, 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.

• ISBN: 9781350286887
• Condition: Fine

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