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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
1990
Online ISBN:
9780511625046
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511625046
Subjects:
Politics: General Interest, Philosophy: General Interest, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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Book description

This important new book takes as its points of departure two questions: What is the nature of valuing? and What morality can be justified in a society that deeply disagrees on what is truly valuable? In Part One, the author develops a theory of value that attempts to reconcile reason with passions. Part Two explores how this theory of value grounds our commitment to moral action. The author argues that rational moral action can neither be seen as a way of simply maximising one's own values, nor derived from reason independent of one's values. Rather, our commitment to the moral point of view is presupposed by our value systems. The book concludes with a defense of liberal political morality.

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‘Gaus’ work constitutes a highly original attempt to provide liberal theory with psychological and moral foundations.’

Philip Pettit - The Australian National University

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