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Desire, practical reason, and the good / edited by Sergio Tenenbaum.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Good and evil.
- Practical reason.
- Desire (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The ""Guise of the Good"" thesis -- the view that desire, intention, or action) always aims at the good - has received renewed attention in the last twenty years. The book brings together work on various issues related to this thesis both from contemporary and historical perspectives.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Sergio Tenenbaum
- A partisan's guide to Socratic intellectualism / Matthew Evans
- Plato on the desire for the good / Rachel Barney
- Aristotle's non-trivial, non-insane view that everyone always desires things under the guise of the good / Jessica Moss
- Sympathy for the devil / Kieran Setiya
- On the guise of the good / Joseph Raz
- The form of the will / Sebastian Rödl
- Goodness and desire / Matthew Boyle & Douglas Lavin
- Good and good for / Sergio Tenenbaum
- Aspects, guises, species, and knowing something / Philip Clark.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-970016-8
- OCLC:
- 677002685
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