San Antonio College Library

Beyond Moral Judgment claims that even the most perceptive contemporary answers to these questions offer no more than partial illumination, owing to an overly narrow focus on judgments that apply moral concepts (for example, "good," "wrong," "selfish," "courageous") and a corresponding failure to register that moral thinking includes more than such judgments.

' Herman (philosophy and law, U. of Southern California) accuses all of Kant's critics of obscuring and misinterpreting his thought on ethics, and thereby impoverishing everyone else's understanding of moral judgement and action. She reinterprets the key texts, and finds not a system of following rules of duty, but a practical rationality as a norm of unconditioned goodness...' - Publisher.

The din and deadlock of public life in America - where insults are traded, slogans proclaimed, and self-serving deals are made and unmade - reveal the deep disagreement that pervades our democracy. The disagreement is not only political but also moral, as citizens and their representatives increasingly take extreme and intransigent positions. A better kind of public discussion is needed, and Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson provide an eloquent argument...