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Life and action : elementary structures of practice and practical thought / Michael Thompson.
LIBRA BJ37 .T49 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Michael, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Conduct of life.
- Life.
- Agent (Philosophy).
- Act (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- vi, 223 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Part I: The representation of life
- Can life be given a real definition?
- The representation of the living individual
- The representation of the life-form itself
- Part II: Naive action theory
- Types of practical explanation
- Naive explanation of action
- Action and time
- Part III: Practical generality
- Two tendencies in practical philosophy
- Practices and dispositions as sources of the goodness of individual actions
- Practice and disposition as sources of individual action.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674016705
- 067401670X
- OCLC:
- 179103489
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