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The Possibility of Altruism / Thomas Nagel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1979Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691020020
  • 9781400884490
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 171/.8 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Postscript -- Contents -- 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 -- XI. Solipsism, Dissociation, and the Impersonal Standpoint -- XII. The Interpretation of Objective Reasons -- XIII. The Consequences -- XIV. Conclusion -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Postscript -- Contents -- 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 -- XI. Solipsism, Dissociation, and the Impersonal Standpoint -- XII. The Interpretation of Objective Reasons -- XIII. The Consequences -- XIV. Conclusion -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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