Diane Jeske

Rationality and Moral Theory (eBook, ePUB)

How Intimacy Generates Reasons

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135854645
• Artikelnr.: 38245605

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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