Ingmar Persson

From Morality to the End of Reason: An Essay on Rights, Reasons, and Responsibility

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Produktbeschreibung

Ingmar Persson presents a new analysis of common sense morality--in particular the act-omission doctrine and the doctrine of double effect. He traces both doctrines to a theory of rights and a conception of responsibility as based on causation, and provides an original account of what it is to have a reason for action.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• New
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780199676552
• ISBN-10: 0199676550
• Artikelnr.: 38026338

Autorenporträt

Ingmar Persson is Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg, and Distinguished Reasearch Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. His publications include The Retreat of Reason: A Dilemma in the Philosophy of Life (OUP, 2005), and co-authored with Julian Savulescu, Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement (OUP, 2012). With Hugh LaFollette he is the editor of the 2nd edition of The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Nature of Rights
2: Problems in the Theory of Rights
3: The Act-Omission Doctrine and Negative Rights
4: Two Act-Omission Paradoxes
5: The Nature of Mental Explanations
6: Double Effect Troubles
7: Reasons of Beneficence and Reason-Based Responsibility
8: Consequences Involving Other Acts
9: The Non-Transitivity of Identity of Supervenient Properties
10: Maximizing Value and Acting Responsibly
11: The End of Epistemic Reasons
12: The End of Practical Reasons
Conclusion
References
Index