Being Apart from Reasons The Role of Reasons in Public and Private Moral Decision-Making /

• Main Author: Michelon, Cláudio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Law and Philosophy Library, 76
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Political science.; Political philosophy.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Philosophy of Law.; Political Philosophy.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

Being Apart from Reasons deals with the question of how we should go about using reasons to decide what to do. More particularly, 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 societie...

Table of Contents:

• MORAL ACTION, REASON AND INCLINATION
• REASONING IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CONTEXTS
• NEUTRALIST PUBLIC LIBERALISM AND THE INSULATION OF THE RIGHT FROM THE GOOD
• LEGAL AND NON-LEGAL REASONS IN THE COMMON GROUND OF DELIBERATION
• THE PROCEDURAL VALUE OF LAW AND THE INSULATION BETWEEN LEGAL AND MORAL REASONS FOR ACTION
• CONCLUSION.