LEADER 04049oam 2200745 a 450 001 9910496140003321 005 20230828201622.0 010 $a9780520921924 010 $a0520921925 010 $a9780585273693 010 $a0585273693 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520921924 035 $a(CKB)111004366722862 035 $a(MH)008147880-1 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000191181 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12024050 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191181 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10183848 035 $a(PQKB)10785467 035 $a(DE-B1597)569430 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520921924 035 $a(OCoLC)1224278983 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30771931 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30771931 035 $a(OCoLC)1409032097 035 $a(Perlego)4258145 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366722862 100 $a19980813d1999 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLegitimate differences $einterpretation in the abortion controversy and other public debates /$fGeorgia Warnke 205 $aReprint 2020 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 214 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a9780520216334 311 0 $a0520216334 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-210) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$t1 . Interpretation and Social Issues --$t2. Surrogate Mothering and the Meaning of Family --$t3. Affirmative Action, Neutrality, and Integration --$t4. Interpretive Differences and the Abortion Debate --$t5. Pornography, Ideology, and Silence --$t6. Hermeneutic Debate and Deliberative Democracy --$t7. Tradition and Ethical Knowledge --$t8. Conclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aLegitimate 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. 606 $aSocial ethics$zUnited States 606 $aSocial values$zUnited States 606 $aHermeneutics 606 $aSocial ethics$zUnited States 606 $aSocial values$zUnited States 606 $aHermeneutics 607 $aUnited States$xSocial policy$xMoral and ethical aspects 615 0$aSocial ethics 615 0$aSocial values 615 0$aHermeneutics. 615 0$aSocial ethics 615 0$aSocial values 615 0$aHermeneutics. 676 $a303.3/72/0973 700 $aWarnke$b Georgia$0170669 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910496140003321 996 $aLegitimate differences$92866614 997 $aUNINA