Review of the book “Contract & Virtues III: epistemological-moral and methodological problems”
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2025.e109747Keywords:
Virtue Epistemology, Prudent Reflective Equilibrium, Moral Knowledge, Liberalism, PerfectionismAbstract
This review aims to analyze the work Contract & Virtues III, by Denis Coitinho, seeking to emphasize its contribution to the contemporary debate about moral knowledge and the opposition between liberalism and perfectionism, proposing normative hybridism as an alternative to monistic models in dealing with complex moral problems. The thesis of normative hybridism aims to reconcile aspects of an ethics of virtues with concepts of neo-contractualism, analyzing, in this volume, epistemological-moral problems and other methodological problems. The work argues that moral knowledge is a practical and intersubjective knowledge, founded on the exercise of virtues such as prudence, justice, autonomy, and equity, corrected by a prudent reflective balance. Throughout the chapters, Coitinho examines issues such as moral ignorance, epistemic injustice, political knowledge, and the role of virtues, both in the public and private spheres of morality, showing how the epistemology of virtues offers adequate conceptual tools to understand and even correct problems of moral and legal deliberation.
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