Practical reasoning about final ends
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Practical reasoning about final ends
(Cambridge studies in philosophy / general editor, Ernest Sosa)
Cambridge University Press, 1997
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Note
Originally published: 1994
Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-319) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Henry Richardson argues that we can determine our ends rationally. He constructs a rich and original theory of how we can reason about our final goals. Richardson defuses the counter-arguments for the limits of rational deliberation, and develops interesting ideas about how his model might be extended to interpersonal deliberation of ends, taking him to the borders of political theory. Along the way Richardson offers illuminating discussions of, inter alia, Aristotle, Aquinas, Sidgwick, and Dewey, as well as the work of several contemporary philosophers.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Problem: 1. Introduction
- 2. Practical reasoning
- Part II. Scope: 3. Ends in deliberation
- 4. Specifying ends
- Part III. System: 5. Value incommensurability
- 6. Is commensurability a prerequisite of rational choice?
- 7. Practical coherence
- 8. Reflective sovereignty
- Part IV. Source: 9. Sources and limits
- 10. Ultimate ends
- Part V. Disagreement: 11. Interpersonal deliberation
- 12. Disagreement in concept and in practice
- 13. Dialectical softening
- 14. Realizing rationality.
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