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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      July 1990
      ISBN:
      9780511625046
      9780521397339
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511625046
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.773kg, 560 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Politics: General Interest, Philosophy: General Interest, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Politics: General Interest, Philosophy: General Interest, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    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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