Rationality and Moral Theory

How Intimacy Generates Reasons
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-99036-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

This book provides answers to both normative and metaethical questions in a way that shows the interconnection of both types of questions, and also shows how a complete theory of reasons can be developed by moving back and forth between the two types of questions. It offers an account of the nature of intimate relationships and of the nature of the reasons that intimacy provides, and then uses that account to defend a traditional intuitionist metaethics. The book thus combines attention to the details of the lived moral life – the context in which many of our most pressing moral questions arise, how we deliberate and make moral decisions, the complexities that plague our attempts to know what we ought to do – with theoretical rigor in offering an account of the nature of reasons, how we come to have moral knowledge, and how we can adjudicate between competing positions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jeske, Diane (University of Iowa, USA)

Jeske, Diane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Agents and Their Reasons

Chapter One: Situating the Project

Chapter Two: How Not to Understand Reasons of Intimacy

Chapter Three: Friends and Other Relations

Chapter Four: Intimacy, Fidelity, and Commitments

Chapter Five: Friendship and Particularism

Chapter Six: Deontological Constraints and Dispute Resolution

Chapter Seven: The Scope of the Objective Agent-Relative

Conclusions: Reasons and Relationships

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Diane Jeske received her PhD from MIT, and is now an associate professor of philosophy at The University of Iowa. She has published extensively on special obligations to intimates and is co-editor, with Richard Fumerton, of Philosophy Through Film.