Rationality and moral theory : how intimacy generates reasons
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Rationality and moral theory : how intimacy generates reasons
(Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory, 13)
Routledge, c2008
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
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  Saitama
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  Niigata
  Toyama
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  Fukui
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Situating the project
- How not to understand reasons of intimacy
- Friends and other relations
- Intimacy, fidelity, and commitments
- Friendship and particularism
- Deontological constraints and dispute resolution
- The scope of the objective agent-relative
- Reasons and relationships
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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