Being apart from reasons : The role of reasons in public and private moral decision-making

Being apart from reasons : The role of reasons in public and private moral decision-making

Author
Cláudio Michelon
Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Springer
Language
English
Document Type
Book
Faculty / Subject Heading
Social Science

The book presents objections to the most common response given by contemporary legal and political theorists to the moral complexity of decision-making in modern societies, namely: the attempt to release public agents from their argumentative burden by insulating a particular set of reasons from the general.


Keywords: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Deliberation / Habermas / John Rawls / Jürgen Habermas / Jürgen Habermas / Moral Reasoning / Public Decision-Making / Morality