04049oam 2200745 a 450 991049614000332120230828201622.0978052092192405209219259780585273693058527369310.1525/9780520921924(CKB)111004366722862(MH)008147880-1(SSID)ssj0000191181(PQKBManifestationID)12024050(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191181(PQKBWorkID)10183848(PQKB)10785467(DE-B1597)569430(DE-B1597)9780520921924(OCoLC)1224278983(MiAaPQ)EBC30771931(Au-PeEL)EBL30771931(OCoLC)1409032097(Perlego)4258145(EXLCZ)9911100436672286219980813d1999 ub 0engur||#||||||||txtccrLegitimate differences interpretation in the abortion controversy and other public debates /Georgia WarnkeReprint 2020Berkeley, Calif. University of California Pressc19991 online resource (xi, 214 p. )Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780520216334 0520216334 Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-210) and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface and Acknowledgments --1 . Interpretation and Social Issues --2. Surrogate Mothering and the Meaning of Family --3. Affirmative Action, Neutrality, and Integration --4. Interpretive Differences and the Abortion Debate --5. Pornography, Ideology, and Silence --6. Hermeneutic Debate and Deliberative Democracy --7. Tradition and Ethical Knowledge --8. Conclusion --Notes --IndexLegitimate Differences challenges the usual portrayal of current debates over thorny social issues including abortion, pornography, affirmative action, and surrogate mothering as moral debates. How can it be said that our debates oppose principles of life to those of liberty, principles of liberty to those of equality, principles of equality to those of fairness, and principles of fairness to those of integrity, when we as Americans share all these principles? Debates over such issues are not, Georgia Warnke argues, moral debates over which principles we should adopt. Rather, they are interpretive debates over the meanings of principles we already possess. Warnke traces the structure of these debates with reference to the work of Jane Austen, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, and Bernard Williams. In separate chapters on surrogate mothering, affirmative action, abortion, and pornography she articulates new understandings of the meanings of some of our principles and shows the equal legitimacy of some different interpretations of the meanings of others. Finally, she suggests that the orientation of American public policy ought to be directed less at finding single canonical interpretations of our principles than at accommodating different legitimate understandings of them. The perspective offered by Legitimate Differences should have a significantly beneficial effect on public discussions.Social ethicsUnited StatesSocial valuesUnited StatesHermeneuticsSocial ethicsUnited StatesSocial valuesUnited StatesHermeneuticsUnited StatesSocial policyMoral and ethical aspectsSocial ethicsSocial valuesHermeneutics.Social ethicsSocial valuesHermeneutics.303.3/72/0973Warnke Georgia170669DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910496140003321Legitimate differences2866614UNINA