This collection shows Wallace to be a consummate cartographer of philosophical terrain...There is much to be learned from Wallace's arresting and inventive interventions into many disputes of keen, contemporary interest...it should be noted that Wallace is an engaging and elegant philosophical stylist and, so, these essays are a real pleasure to read.
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Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important papers on moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay Wallace, one of the leading philosophers currently working in these areas.
The papers explore the interpenetration of normative and psychological issues in a series of debates that lie at the heart of moral philosophy. Part I, Reason, Desire, and the Will, discusses the nexus linking normativity to motivation, including the relations between desire and reasons, the role of normative considerations in explanations of action, and the normative commitments involved in willing an end (such as the requirement to adopt the necessary means). Part II, Responsibility, Identification, and Emotion, looks at questions about the rational capacities presupposed by accountable agency and the psychic factors that both inhibit and enable identification with what we do. It includes an interpretation of the Nietzschean claim that ressentiment is among the sources of modern moral consciousness. Part III, Morality and Other Normative Domains, addresses the structure of moral reasons and moral motivation, and the relations between moral demands and other normative domains (including especially the requirements of living a meaningful human life).
Wallace's treatments of these topics are at once sophisticated and engaging. Taken together, they constitute an advertisement for a distinctive way of pursuing issues in moral psychology and the theory of practical reason. The book articulates and defends a unified framework for thinking about those issues, while offering sustained critical discussions of other influential approaches (by philosophers such as Korsgaard, McDowell, Nietzsche, Raz, Scanlon, and Williams). It should be of interest to every serious student of moral philosophy.
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Collecting fourteen papers on moral psychology and practical reason, this title explores the inter penetration of normative and psychological issues in debates within moral philosophy. The themes include reason, desire, and the will; responsibility, identification, and emotion; and the relation between morality and normative domains.
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I. REASON, DESIRE, AND THE WILL ; II. RESPONSIBILITY, IDENTIFICATION, AND EMOTION ; III. MORALITY AND OTHER NORMATIVE DOMAINS
Important essays from a leading moral philosopher
Collects papers previously difficult to track down
Features a brand-new essay and a helpful introduction
Important essays from a leading moral philosopher
Collects papers previously difficult to track down
Features a brand-new essay and a helpful introduction
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780199287499
Publisert
2006
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
561 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
356
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