Moral Obligations

Action, Intention, and Valuation
Herausgeber: Harding, Carol; Wren, Thomas E

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There are many ways of writing about the moral life; Moral Obligations follows the way of what philosophers call ""meta-ethics"": the analysis, not of particular moral problems, but of how the concepts used in formulating and solving them, concepts like ""right"" and ""obligatory,"" have significance and power over us

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2017
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781138528345
• ISBN-10: 113852834X
• Artikelnr.: 50495001

Autorenporträt

Carol Harding

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Transaction Edition
CHAPTER 1. ACTION
1. The Standpoint of the Agent
2. The Primacy of Action
3. Self and Other
4. A Taxonomy of Action
5. Transitive, Intransitive, and Static Actions
CHAPTER 2. INTENTION
1. The Descriptions of an Action
2. Levels of Intention
3. The Tacit Side of Intention
4. The Vertical, Forward, and Lateral Dimensions
CHAPTER 3. VALUATION
1. The Greek Debate
2. Medieval Conceptions of Value
3. The Naturalistic Fallacy
4. Prescriptivism
5. Descriptivism
CHAPTER 4. OBLIGATION
1. Three Preparatory Distinctions
2. Moral Urgency and Other Oughts
3. Why Be Moral?
4. The Necessity of Interagency
CHAPTER 5: THE MORAL COMMUNITY
1. The Rightness of Rules
2. Self-Imposed Heteronomy
3. Three Conceptions of Harmony
CHAPTER 6: THE MORAL DOMAIN
1. The Model
2. Applied Geometry
3. Some Ongoing Discussions of Moral Agency
INDEX