Diane Jeske

Rationality and Moral Theory (eBook, PDF)

How Intimacy Generates Reasons

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book combines the details of the lived moral life - the context in which many of our most pressing moral questions arise - with theoretical rigor in offering an account of the nature of reasons, how we come to have moral knowledge, and how we can adjudicate between competing positions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135854652
• Artikelnr.: 42977327

Autorenporträt

Diane Jeske received her PhD from MIT, and is now an associate professor of philosophy at The University of Iowa. She has published extensively on special obligations to intimates and is co-editor, with Richard Fumerton, of Philosophy Through Film.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Agents and Their Reasons
Chapter One: Situating the Project
Chapter Two: How Not to Understand Reasons of Intimacy
Chapter Three: Friends and Other Relations
Chapter Four: Intimacy, Fidelity, and Commitments
Chapter Five: Friendship and Particularism
Chapter Six: Deontological Constraints and Dispute Resolution
Chapter Seven: The Scope of the Objective Agent-Relative
Conclusions: Reasons and Relationships
Notes
Bibliography
Index