Moral reasoning in a pluralistic world / Patricia Marino.

"Working broadly within the analytic philosophy tradition, Marino challenges commonly held ideas that to use reasoning in morality requires finding a single principle or value to apply to all cases. She argues instead for a method she calls "pluralistic coherence," in which reason requires us to fin...

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Main Author: Marino, Patricia, 1966- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.
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Physical Description:x, 201 pages ; 23 cm
Issued also in electronic format.
Format: Book

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