TY - CHAP
T1 - Arguing About Values
T2 - The Problem of Public Moral Argument
AU - Zarefsky, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - There is a tension between democracy, which requires acknowledgment of human fallibility, and moral principle, which individuals normally hold with certainty. Partly for this reason, it is often difficult and uncomfortable to argue about moral values in a democratic public sphere. After exploring this tension, the essay identifies levels, strategies, and tactics for arguments about values, with illustrations of each. Although individuals may hold moral principles with certainty, public discourse about values necessarily must be inconclusive. This essay originally was presented at a 2009 conference on Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility held at Wake Forest University. It is reprinted here from the volume, Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility (Nancy M.P. King and Michael J. Hyde, Ed.), pp. 3–13 (New York: Routledge, 2012).
AB - There is a tension between democracy, which requires acknowledgment of human fallibility, and moral principle, which individuals normally hold with certainty. Partly for this reason, it is often difficult and uncomfortable to argue about moral values in a democratic public sphere. After exploring this tension, the essay identifies levels, strategies, and tactics for arguments about values, with illustrations of each. Although individuals may hold moral principles with certainty, public discourse about values necessarily must be inconclusive. This essay originally was presented at a 2009 conference on Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility held at Wake Forest University. It is reprinted here from the volume, Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility (Nancy M.P. King and Michael J. Hyde, Ed.), pp. 3–13 (New York: Routledge, 2012).
KW - Democracy
KW - Fallibility
KW - Instrumental and terminal values
KW - Relativism
KW - Subsumption
KW - Values
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-05485-8_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-05485-8_14
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84976611922
T3 - Argumentation Library
SP - 167
EP - 177
BT - Argumentation Library
PB - Springer Nature
ER -