Legitimate differences : interpretation in the abortion controversy and other public debates /
Legitimate Differences challenges the usual portrayal of current debates over thorny social issues including abortion, pornography, affirmative action, and surrogate mothering as moral debates. How can it be said that our debates oppose principles of life to those of liberty, principles of liberty t...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©1999.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8441787 |
Table of Contents:
- Interpretation and social issues
- Surrogate mothering and the meaning of family
- Affirmative action, neutrality, and integration
- Interpretive differences and the abortion debate
- Pornography, ideology, and silence
- Hermeneutic debate and deliberative democracy
- Tradition and ethical knowledge
- Conclusion.