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Book SynopsisEdmund Abegg constructs a coherent path that leads from abstract psychological and moral theory to ideal political and economic scenarios and then to their real-world applications. This book establishes a framework that clarifies important public policy issues.
Trade ReviewThis is an ambitious, comprehensive, and very impressive book. In Political Morality in a Disenchanted World, Edmund Abegg draws out the implications of accepting moral non-realism. . . . Along the way, believers in the disenchanted world (naturalistic cosmos) will find a psychologized and non-deontological ethics, a careful examination of freedom versus welfare, and a rejection of the mythical principles of justice and equality. This book, cogently argued and fair in its assessments, will interest not only naturalists, but non-naturalists and social theorists across a wide spectrum. -- Richard Double, professor emeritus, philosophy, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Political Morality in a Disenchanted World is an impressive effort to place moral and political life on a firm but realistic foundation, one that is less vulnerable than traditional moral foundations to appropriation by dogmatists for purposes that too often turn violent or exploitative. -- Sharon R. Krause, Professor of Political Science, Brown University
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I The Philosophical Framework 1 Belief-Desire Psychology 2 Metaethics 3 Normative Ethics Part II Ideal Theory: Morality and Polity 4 Political Morality 5 Governments of Polities 6 International Morality and Governments 7 Economies Part III The Real World: Morality and Polity 8 Real-World Political Morality 9 Real-World Economies 10 Conclusion: What Is To Be Done? References Index
