The morality of gay rights : an exploration in political philosophy /
Carlos A. Ball.
- xiv, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-261) and index.
Introduction: Why Morality? -- Neutral Liberalism. Rawls's Political Liberalism. Rawls from a Gay Rights Perspective. Dworkin's Liberal Equality and Moral Bracketing. The Later Dworkin: Individual Ethics and the Liberal Society -- Pragmatic Liberalism. Rorty's Pragmatism. Rorty from a Gay Rights Perspective. Posner's Pragmatism and Human Sexuality. Rational Man as Moral Man -- Moral Liberalism. Needs, Capabilities, and the Leading of Full Human Lives. Relationships, Attachments, and Autonomy. Moral Liberalism and Gay Rights -- Communitarianism. Sandellian Values and Communities. The Role of Community in the Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men. Walzer and Justice. Internal Social Criticism: Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting by Lesbians and Gay Men -- Postmodernism. Foucault and Sexual Ethics. Agency Versus Autonomy in Foucault's Late Writings. Codes of Conduct and a Gay and Lesbian Sexual Ethic. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3.
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Gay rights--Philosophy Homosexuality--Moral and ethical aspects