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Author Wallace, R. Jay.

Title Normativity and the will [electronic resource] : selected papers on moral psychology and practical reason / R. Jay Wallace.

Imprint Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Description 347 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents How to argue about practical reason -- Three conceptions of rational agency -- Explanation, deliberation, and reasons -- Normativity and the will -- Normativity, commitment, and instrumental reason -- Reason and responsibility -- Moral responsibility and the practical point of view -- Addiction as defect of the will : some philosophical reflections -- Caring, reflexivity, and the structure of volition -- Ressentiment, value, and self-vindication : making sense of Nietzsche's slave revolt -- Virtue, reason, and principle -- Scanlon's contractualism -- The rightness of acts and the goodness of lives -- Moral reasons and moral fetishes : rationalists and anti-rationalists on moral motivation.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Normativity (Ethics)
Will.
Practical reason.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 019928749X (alk. paper)
0199287481 (alk. paper)

 
    
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