Reasonably vicious / Candace Vogler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vogler, Candace A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Practical reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

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. This text does all three.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Instrumentalism about Practical Reason

2 In Some Sense Good

3 Medieval and Modern

4 Pleasure

5 Fit

6 Use

7 The Standard Picture of Practical Reason

8 Ethics

Appendix A Anscombe’s Argument

Appendix B Anscombe’s Objection to Donald Davidson

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

Appendix D Moral Actions, Virtuous Actions, Expressive Actions

Appendix E Some Notes about the Standard Picture and Formal Work

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2002.

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

ISBN:

9780674044708

0674044703

OCLC:

830512113