The Saving Lie : Truth and Method in the Social Sciences /

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"This book explores the distinction between selflessness and self-interestedness, between acting for one's own advantage and acting, even when disadvantageous, for reasons of duty or conscience. This apparently straightforward contrast (exemplified in the difference between rational-choice...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bailey, F. G. (Frederick George)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Methodology.
Ethics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
ethics (philosophy)
Morale.
Ethics
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ideas, Reality, and Saving Lies
  • pt. I. Expediency
  • 1. A Very Beautiful Theory
  • 2. The Coase Recension and Its Lineage
  • 3. Gains from Trade
  • pt. II. Morality
  • 4. Natural Systems and Moral Systems
  • 5. Imaginative Constructs and Social Reality
  • 6. A Piece of the Action
  • pt. III. Agency and Rhetoric
  • 7. Affirming Structure: The Amen Category
  • 8. Contested Structures
  • Conclusion: General Theses and Particular Cases.

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