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Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms
Benjamin Gregg
其他書名
A Theory of Enlightened Localism
出版State University of New York Press, 2012-02-01
主題Social Science / Sociology / GeneralPolitical Science / History & TheoryPhilosophy / Political
ISBN07914865919780791486597
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-m8VF8UpSFwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Are social equity, political fairness, and legal justice possible within a liberal political order, even if norms are indeterminate? The modern world is distinguished by both its complexity and the absence of a single theory, principle, or tradition with the authority to constrain us. Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms demonstrates that while moral validity is relative rather than absolute, and cultural meanings local rather than universal, social integration and democratic politics are still attainable goals. Benjamin Gregg fashions a theory that combines proceduralism with pragmatism—an "enlightened localism"—that adjudicates among competing normative commitments and interpretations using local criteria in the absence of universal standards. The theory is applied to three empirical domains: social criticism, public policy, and law and morality.