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One of the important issues confronting moral and political philosophers is the question of justification. This book shows how the particularity of context can be transcended without contradicting our pluralistic intuitions: a strategy centered on the exemplary universalism of judgment.

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Preface Introduction 1. Judgment as a Paradigm 2. Making Sense of the Exemplary 3. The Exemplary and the Public Realm: Reconstructing the Normativity of the Reasonable 4. Exemplifying the Worst: Facing up to Radical Evil 5. Political Republicanism and the Force of the Example 6. Exemplarity and Human Rights 7. Enforcing Human Rights Between Westphalia and Cosmopolis 8. Europe as a Special Area for Human Hope 9. Religion Within the Limits of Reasonableness Notes Index

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: 6/12/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780231140720, 978-0231140720
      ISBN10: 023114072X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      One of the important issues confronting moral and political philosophers is the question of justification. This book shows how the particularity of context can be transcended without contradicting our pluralistic intuitions: a strategy centered on the exemplary universalism of judgment.

      Table of Contents
      Preface Introduction 1. Judgment as a Paradigm 2. Making Sense of the Exemplary 3. The Exemplary and the Public Realm: Reconstructing the Normativity of the Reasonable 4. Exemplifying the Worst: Facing up to Radical Evil 5. Political Republicanism and the Force of the Example 6. Exemplarity and Human Rights 7. Enforcing Human Rights Between Westphalia and Cosmopolis 8. Europe as a Special Area for Human Hope 9. Religion Within the Limits of Reasonableness Notes Index

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