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The Possibility of Altruism /

Just as there are rational requirements on thought, there are rational requirements on action. This book defends a conception of ethics, and a related conception of human nature, according to which altruism is included among the basic rational requirements on desire and action.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nagel, Thomas, 1937- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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500 |a Originally published 1970 by Clarendon Press, Oxford. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a part one. Ethics and human motivation -- I. The foundation of morals -- II. The traditional controversy -- III. The solution -- IV. Necessity and interpretation -- part two : Subjective reasons and prudence -- V. Desires -- VI. Prudential motives and the present -- VII. Reasons -- VIII. The interpretation of prudential reasons : identity over time -- part three. Objective reasons and altruism -- IX. Altruism : the intuitive issue -- X. Objective reasons go -- XI. Solipsism, dissociation, and the impersonal standpoint -- XII. The interpretation of objective reasons -- XIII. The consequences -- XIV. Conclusion. 
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