The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics) - Tapa blanda

Pettit, Philip

 
9780198801306: The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics)
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ISBN 10: 0198801300 ISBN 13: 9780198801306
Editorial: Oxford University Press, USA, 2017

Sinopsis

Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require not only their characteristic positive behaviours in the actual world (i.e. as things are), but preservation of those characteristic behaviours across a range of counterfactual scenarios in which things are different from how they actually are. The counterfactual 'robustness', in this sense, of these behaviours is thus part of our very conception of these attachments and these virtues. Pettit shows that attachment, virtues, and respect all conform to a similar conceptual geography. He explores the implications of this idea for key moral issues, such as the doctrine of double effect and the distinction between doing and allowing. He articulates and argues against an assumption, which he calls 'moral behaviourism,' which permeates contemporary ethics.

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Philip Pettit is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. He is the author of The Common Mind (OUP, 1996), Republicanism (OUP, 1997), A Theory of Freedom (OUP, 2001), and Rules, Reasons, and Norms (OUP 2002), and co-author of The Economy of Esteem (OUP, 2004), with Geoffrey Brennan; Mind, Morality, and Explanation (OUP, 2004), and Group Agency (OUP, 2011), with Christian List.

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Oxford University Press, USA
Año de publicación
2017
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ISBN 10 
0198801300
ISBN 13 
9780198801306
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296
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