LEADER 04077oam 2200637I 450 001 9910458118003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-351-87746-1 010 $a1-315-23557-9 010 $a1-281-10444-2 010 $a9786611104443 010 $a0-7546-8454-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315235578 035 $a(CKB)1000000000401711 035 $a(EBL)438564 035 $a(OCoLC)319492470 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000262729 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11191804 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000262729 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10271224 035 $a(PQKB)10519930 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438564 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438564 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10211076 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL110444 035 $a(OCoLC)988377601 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000401711 100 $a20180706e20162007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTruth and normativity $ean inquiry into the basis of everyday moral claims /$fIain Brassington 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (195 p.) 225 1 $aAshgate new critical thinking in philosophy 300 $aFirst published 2007 by Ashgate Pub. 311 $a1-138-26537-3 311 $a0-7546-5874-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index. 327 $a"There are no innocents" : why we should be worried about moral philosophy. Making moral arguments ; The moral terrorist? ; Other terrorists ; Terrorism and the democratic state : unelected affinities ; The ship of state and its galley slaves ; The blurred borders ; Opening the question -- Independentism : moral truth and the lack thereof. Independentism and dependentism ; Realist independentism ; Realist independentism and queer science ; The rejection of realist independentism ; Idealist independentism : Kant and his heirs ; The importance of the will ; The problem of formalism ; The metaphysics of reason and the problem of taxonomy ; Reason and the moral will ; Independentism and commonsense morality -- Dependentism : buying truth and pawning normativity. If you know what's good for you : eudaimonism ; Souls, naturally ; Cosmology as a moral tool ; In defence of politics ; Eudaimonism, cosmology and essentialism ; Moral feelings ; Instrumentalism and the a priori ; Morality and the snark -- The reality of values : Heidegger and moral thought. Morality and commonsense ; Heidegger versus morality? ; Truth and reality in moral statements ; How to philosophise (with) a hammer ; Appearance and values ; Categorisation and apophansis ; Problems with the account ; Truth and the possibility of moral error ; The embeddedness of norms ; The problem of caprice ; Publicity, commonsense and critique -- Oughtobiography : Heidegger and ethical thought. Agency and Dasein : the break from Descartes ; Writing about ethics ; Pondering the abode : authenticity and finitude ; Pondering the abode : ethics and infinity ; Morality and authenticity : the problem of Nazi virtues ; Ethics and krisis ; Self, world and other ; Democracy, terrorism and existence ; What is wrong with terrorism(?) 330 $aBy posing the question of what it is that marks the difference between something like terrorism and something like civil society, Brassington argues that commonsense moral arguments against terrorism or political violence imply that the modern democratic polis might also be morally unjustifiable. In exploring this problem, Brassington identifies a tension between the primary values of truth and normativity in the standard accounts of moral theory. 410 0$aAshgate new critical thinking in philosophy. 606 $aEthics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthics. 676 $a170/.44 700 $aBrassington$b Iain.$0802810 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458118003321 996 $aTruth and normativity$92108395 997 $aUNINA