Moral Realism and Political Decisions: Practical Rationality in Contemporary Public ContextsGabriele De Anna, Riccardo Martinelli |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Agathological Realism Searching for the Good beyond | 29 |
Adorno and Rorty | 51 |
Reasoning Argumentation and Rationality | 81 |
Is Truth Relevant? On the Relevance of Relevance | 105 |
The Austinian Conception of Illocution and | 135 |
The Relevance of Anthropology and the Evolutionary | 151 |
Realism Human Action and Politics On the Political | 189 |
Determining Ius according to Thomas Aquinas | 213 |
Reason Morality and Skill | 239 |
Contributors | 261 |
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