TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nagel,Thomas
TI  - The Possibility of Altruism
SN  - 9780691020020
U1  - 171/.8 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Altruism
KW  - Ethics
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400884490
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