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Ethics in the conflicts of modernity : an essay on desire, practical reasoning, and narrative /
"This essay is divided into five chapters. In the first the questions initially posed about our desires and how we should think about them are questions that plain non philosophical persons often find themselves asking. When however they carry their attempt to answer these questions a little fu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Epigraph; Contents; Preface; 1 Desires, Goods, and ``Good'': some philosophical issues; 1.1 Desires, why they matter, what they are; what is it to have a good reason for desiring something?; 1.2 'Good', goods, and disagreements about goods; 1.3 Expressivist accounts of 'good' and of disagreements about goods; 1.4 'Good' and goods understood in terms of human flourishing: enter Aristotle; 1.5 What is at odds between expressivists and NeoAristotelians; 1.6 Two rival characterizations of moral development.
- 1.7 Instructive conflicts between an agent's judgments and her desires: expressivists, Frankfurt, and Nietzsche1.8 The NeoAristotelian conception of the rational agent; 1.9 Expressivists versus NeoAristotelians: a philosophical conflict in which neither party seems able to defeat the other; 1.10 Why I have put on one side not only the philosophical standpoints of most recent moral philosophers, but also their moral standpoint; 2 Theory, practice, and their social contexts.
- 2.1 How to respond to the type of philosophical disagreement described in Chapter 1: the social contexts of philosophical theorizing2.2 Hume as an example: his local and particular conception of the natural and the universal; 2.3 Aristotle and his social context; Aquinas's recovery of aristotle from that context; how Aquinas seemed to have become irrelevant; 2.4 Marx, surplus value, and the explanation of Aquinas's apparent irrelevance; 2.5 Academic economics as a mode of understanding and misunderstanding; 2.6 Marxists and Distributivists as rival critics of the dominant standpoint.
- 2.7 What have we learned about how to proceed beyond the impasse of Chapter 1?3 Morality and modernity; 3.1 Morality, the morality of modernity; 3.2 The modernity in which Morality is at home; 3.3 State and market: the ethics-of-the-state and the ethics-of-the-market; 3.4 Desires, ends, and the multiplication of desires; 3.5 The structuring of desires by norms; 3.6 How and why Morality functions as it does; 3.7 Morality put in question by expressivism: the limits of an expressivist critique; 3.8 Morality put in question by Oscar Wilde; 3.9 Morality put in question by D.H. Lawrence.
- 3.10 Morality put in question by Bernard Williams3.11 Questions posed to and by Williams; 4 NeoAristotelianism developed in contemporary Thomistic terms: issues of relevance and rational justification; 4.1 Problems posed for NeoAristotelians; 4.2 Families, workplaces, and schools: common goods and conflicts; 4.3 The politics of local community and conflict: Danish and Brazilian examples; 4.4 Practical rationality from the standpoint of the dominant order; 4.5 Practical rationality from a NeoAristotelian standpoint; 4.6 The dominant conception of happiness.