Gunnar Skirbekk

Timely Thoughts

Modern Challenges and Philosophical Responses: Contributions to Inter-Cultural Dialogues

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In an age of cultural pluralism, and in light of serious counterarguments, this work offers a justification of universal principles. The book focuses on a series of modern challenges and argues in favor of an awareness for varieties and nuances, as well as a discursive universality. Timely Thoughts represents a serious contribution to inter-cultural dialogues and is appropriate for academia and the public sphere.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9780761837763
• ISBN-10: 0761837760
• Artikelnr.: 22775503

Autorenporträt

By Gunnar Skirbekk

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The Modernity Debate:
Rationality-Universal and Plural? Chapter 4 A Crisis in the Humanities?
Chapter 5 Technological Expertise and Global Ethics Chapter 6 Ethical
Gradualism Chapter 7 On the Possibility of a Philosophical Justification
for Universally Binding Principles Chapter 8 Procedural Universality,
'Bottom Up' Part 9 Bibliography Part 10 Index