Ethics After Babel: The Languages of Morals and Their Discontents

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Princeton University Press, Jan 23, 2001 - Philosophy - 365 pages

A fascinating study of moral languages and their discontents, Ethics after Babel explains the links that connect contemporary moral philosophy, religious ethics, and political thought in clear, cogent, even conversational prose. Princeton's paperback edition of this award-winning book includes a new postscript by the author that responds to the book's noted critics, Stanley Hauerwas and the late Alan Donagan. In answering his critics, Jeffrey Stout clarifies the book's arguments and offers fresh reasons for resisting despair over the prospects of democratic discourse.

 

Contents

I
13
II
33
III
60
IV
82
V
109
VI
124
VII
145
VIII
163
X
220
XI
243
XII
266
XIII
293
XIV
305
XV
333
XVI
359
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IX
191

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Page vi - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

About the author (2001)

Jeffrey Stout is Professor of Religion at Princeton University.

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