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Reason and morality
Publication details: Chicago The University Chicago Press 1981Description: 393p ixISBN:- 9780226288765
- 171.220000Â GEW
Contents:
CONTENTS:
Preface;
1. The Problem of Justification;
Central Questions of Moral Philosophy;
Is It Needless to Justify a Supreme Moral Principle?;
Is It Impossible to Justify a Supreme Moral Principle?;
Can a Supreme Moral Principle Be Justified Inductively?;
Reason and the Generic Features of Action;
The Dialectically Necessary Method;
2. The Normative Structure of Action;
Purposiveness and Goods;
Generic Rights and Right-Claims;
The Criterion of Relevant Similarities;
3. The Principle of Generic Consistency;
The Derivation of the Principle;
The Formal Necessity of the Principle;
The Material Necessity of the Principle;
Analytic Truth and Morality;
Motivation and Rationality;
4. Direct Applications of the Principle;
Kinds of Applications and Principles;
Equality of Generic Rights;
Common Good and Duties regarding Basic Goods;
The Duty to Rescue;
Duties regarding Nonsubtractive Goods;
Duties regarding Additive Goods;
Duties regarding Freedom;
5. Indirect Applications of the Principle;
Social Rules and Institutions;
Optional-Procedural Justification of Social Rules: Voluntary Associations;
Static-Instrumental Justification of Social Rules: The Minimal State;
Necessary-Procedural Justification of Social Rules: The Method of Consent;
Dynamic-Instrumental Justification of Social Rules: The Supportive State;
The Completeness of the Principle;
Conflicts of Duties;
Some Concluding Reflections;
Notes;
Index.
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CONTENTS:
Preface;
1. The Problem of Justification;
Central Questions of Moral Philosophy;
Is It Needless to Justify a Supreme Moral Principle?;
Is It Impossible to Justify a Supreme Moral Principle?;
Can a Supreme Moral Principle Be Justified Inductively?;
Reason and the Generic Features of Action;
The Dialectically Necessary Method;
2. The Normative Structure of Action;
Purposiveness and Goods;
Generic Rights and Right-Claims;
The Criterion of Relevant Similarities;
3. The Principle of Generic Consistency;
The Derivation of the Principle;
The Formal Necessity of the Principle;
The Material Necessity of the Principle;
Analytic Truth and Morality;
Motivation and Rationality;
4. Direct Applications of the Principle;
Kinds of Applications and Principles;
Equality of Generic Rights;
Common Good and Duties regarding Basic Goods;
The Duty to Rescue;
Duties regarding Nonsubtractive Goods;
Duties regarding Additive Goods;
Duties regarding Freedom;
5. Indirect Applications of the Principle;
Social Rules and Institutions;
Optional-Procedural Justification of Social Rules: Voluntary Associations;
Static-Instrumental Justification of Social Rules: The Minimal State;
Necessary-Procedural Justification of Social Rules: The Method of Consent;
Dynamic-Instrumental Justification of Social Rules: The Supportive State;
The Completeness of the Principle;
Conflicts of Duties;
Some Concluding Reflections;
Notes;
Index.