Moral realism and political decisions
Subtitle: practical rationality in contemporary public contexts
By: edited by Gabriele De Anna and Riccardo Martinelli
Series: Schriften aus der Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg -- Band 20; Schriften aus der Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg -- Bd. 20.
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bamberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9783863092948; 9783863092955
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Moral realism; Political ethics; Justice (Philosophy)
Notes: Papers presented at a workshop held December 19-22, 2013 at the University of Bamberg.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Gabriele De Anna and Riccardo Martinelli; title: Realism, ontology, and the concept of reality / Riccardo Martinelli; title: Agathological realism. Searching for the good beyond subjectivity and objectivity, or, On the importance of being Platonic / Salvatore Lavecchia; title: "Solidarity at the time of the Fall" : Adorno and Rorty on moral realism / Alexander Fischer and Marko J. Fuchs; title: Bacon against Descartes. Emotions, rationality, defenses / Mario De Caro and Massimo Marraffa; title: Reasoning, argumentation and rationality / Paolo Labinaz; title: Is truth relevant? On the relevance of relevance / Thomas Becker; title: The Austinian conception of illocution and its implications for value and social ontology / Marina Sbisà; title: The relevance of anthropology and the evolutionary sciences for political philosophy / Christian Illies; title: Realism, human action and politics. On the political dimension of individual choices / Gabriele De Anna; title: Determining ius according to Thomas Aquinas. A realistic model for juridical decisions / Elvio Ancona; title: Reason, morality and skill / John Stopford.