Reason and Morality

by Joanna Overing and Alan Gewirth

Book Overview

"Most modern philosophers attempt to solve the problem of morality from within the epistemological assumptions that define the dominant cultural perspective of our age. Alan Gewirth's Reason and Morality is a major work in this ongoing enterprise. Gewirth develops, with patience and skill, what he calls a 'modified naturalism' in which morality is derived by logic alone from the concept of action. . . . I think that the publication of Reason...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226288765
• ISBN13: 9780226288765
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 401 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"