Truth and Normativity An Inquiry into the Basis of Everyday Moral Claims By: Iain Brassington Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9781138265370, 1138265373 eText ISBN: 9781351877459, 1351877453 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2007 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781351877459R90 Beginning by posing the question of what it is that marks the difference between something like terrorism and something like civil society, Brassington argues that commonsense moral arguments against terrorism or political violence tend to imply that the modern democratic polis might also be morally unjustifiable. At the same time, the commonsense arguments in favour of something like a modern democratic polis could be co-opted by the politically violent as exculpatory. In exploring this prima facie problem and in the course of trying to substantiate the commonsense distinction, Brassington identifies a tension between the prima Download ebook: https://ouo.io/FNzriY