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100 _aGewirth Alan
245 _aReason and morality
260 _aChicago
_bThe University Chicago Press
_c1981
300 _a393p
_cix
365 _b Rs. 1,500
505 _aCONTENTS: 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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