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The cage : must, should, and ought from is /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weissman, David, 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The CAGE; Contents; Introduction; 1. Categorial Form; 1. Evidence of Categorial Form; 2. The Method for Discovering Categorial Form; 3. Kantian Objections; 4. Some Possible Categorial Forms; 5. Antecedent Formulations; 6. Practical Applications; 7. Which is the Better Hypothesis?; 2. Nature; 1. Logic; 2. Possible and Actual Worlds; 3. The Actual World: Nature; A. Spacetime; B. Causality and Natural Laws; C. Dispositions; D. Systems; E. The Whole; 4. Testability; 5. Humean Objections; 6. Natural Norms; 3. Practical Norms; 1. How Are Systems Formed and Stabilized?; 2. Practical Imperatives.
  • 3. Ends and Aims4. Consequential and Instrumental Values versus Intrinsic Values; 5. From Is to Must, Should, or Ought; 4. Moral Norms; 1. Semantic Preliminaries; 2. The Context of Morality; 3. Ontological Assumptions; 4. Signature Values; 5. Moral Psychology; 6. Thick Moral Concepts: The Cognitive and Emotive Aspectsof Moral Norms; 7. Duties to Systems, Their Members, and Others; 8. Moral Flashpoints; 9. From Facts to Norms; 10. Opposed Perspectives: Norms Founded in Material Systemsor Rational Ideals; 11. Norms of Several Kinds; 12. Rights; 13. Layered Publics; 14. Truth and Error.
  • 15. Should and Ought from Is16. Support from Principal Moral Theorists; 17. Resolving the Diversity of Moral Theories; 5. Aesthetic Norms; 1. The Conditions for Aesthetic Value in Created Works; 2. Objections; 3. Natural Beauty; 4. Virtual Form; 5. Must, Should, and Ought in the Context of Is; 6. Cultural Variation; 1. Generic Needs and Their Determinate Expressions; 2. Aristotelian and Nietzschean Problems; 3. Change; 7. Freedom; 1. Positive and Negative Freedom; 2. Alternative Ontologies; 3. Free Will; 4. Positive Freedom: Character and Opportunity; 5. Pathologies of Freedom.
  • 6. Is Freedom Good-in-Itself?Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.