Reasonably vicious / Candace Vogler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vogler, Candace.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Practical reason.

Physical Description:

viii, 295 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Is unethical conduct necessarily irrational? Answering this question requires giving an account of practical reason, of practical good, and of the source or point of wrongdoing. By the time most contemporary philosophers have done the first two, they have lost sight of the third, chalking up bad action to rashness, weakness of will, or ignorance. In this book, Candace Vogler does all three, taking as her guides scholars who contemplated why some people perform evil deeds. In doing so, she sets out to at once engage and redirect contemporary debates about ethics, practical reason, and normativity.

Contents:

1 Instrumentalism about Practical Reason 10

2 In Some Sense Good 26

3 Medieval and Modern 53

4 Pleasure 74

5 Fit 97

6 Use 126

7 The Standard Picture of Practical Reason 147

8 Ethics 180

Appendix A Anscombe's Argument 205

Appendix B Anscombe's Objection to Donald Davidson 213

Appendix C A Note about Kant and Befitting-Style Desirability Characterizations 223

Appendix D Moral Actions, Virtuous Actions, Expressive Actions 230

Appendix E Some Notes about the Standard Picture and Formal Work 238.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-289) and index.

ISBN:

0674007417

OCLC:

50164767