Knowing better : virtue, deliberation, and normative ethics / Daniel Star.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Star, Daniel, 1971- author.

Series:

Oxford philosophical monographs.

Oxford philosophical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 147 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Virtue, deliberation, and normative ethics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Daniel Star presents a novel solution to the problem of reconciling normative ethics with ordinary virtue - for while ethical principles seem worth defending, it is not plausible to suggest that virtuous people in general follow them. He presents a new account of virtue, and rethinks the role that knowledge plays in deliberation and action.

Contents:

Cover; Knowing Better: Virtue, Deliberation, and Normative Ethics; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1: Two Levels of Ethical Thinking; 1 Introduction; 2 Hare and Williams on Two Levels of Moral Thinking; 3 Two Levels of Normative Ethical Reasons; 4 The Virtuous; 5 Williamsś Concern; 6 Ethical Particularism; 2: The Authority of Reasons; 1 Introduction; 2 Normative Reasons; 3 From the Service Conception to the Minimalist Conception; 4 A Challenge; 5 The Authority of Reasons, as Evidence; 6 The Razian Insight and a New Argument for Reasons as Evidence

7 Derivative, Preemptive, and Instrumental Reasons; 3: Virtue; 1 Introduction; 2 Virtue-responsive Evil Demons; 3 Reasons, the Virtuous, and Modesty; 4 A Reduction Plan; 5 The Reasons of Virtue and the Primacy of the Normative; 6 Reasons as Evidence, the Virtuous, and the Primacy of the Epistemic; 7 Comparing Analyses of Particular Virtues; 8 A Problem and a Solution; 4: Knowing Better; 1 Introduction; 2 The Norm of Practical Reasoning; 3 The Norm of Practical Reasoning, Reasons as Evidence, and Knowledge as Evidence; 4 Ethical Knowledge; 5 The Reasons that There Are; 6 Conclusion; References

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-143) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-106174-3

0-19-106175-1

0-19-180418-5

OCLC:

921242124