Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason

Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason
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Download or read book Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason written by Ruth Chang and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can quite different values be rationally weighed against one another? Can the value of one thing always be ranked as greater than, equal to, or less than the value of something else? If the answer to these questions is no, then in what areas do we find commensurability and comparability unavailable? And what are the implications for moral and legal decision making? This book struggles with these questions, and arrives at distinctly different answers."


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