Moral Obligations: Action, Intention, and Valuation

ISBN-13: 9781412813402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 150 str.

Thomas E. Wren

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There are many ways of writing about the moral life; Moral Obligations follows the way of what philosophers call "meta-ethics" the analysis, not of particular moral problems, but of how the concepts used in formulating and solving them, concepts like "right" and "obligatory," have significance and power over us. The meta-ethical part of this book is preceded by a discussion of action, in which Wren lays the foundations for the argument that moral obligation is a part of the formal structure of human agency.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Transaction Edition
CHAPTER 1. ACTION
1. The Standpoint of the Agent
2. The Primacy of Action
3. Self and Other
4. A Taxonomy of Action
5. Transitive, Intransitive, and Static Actions
CHAPTER 2. INTENTION
1. The Descriptions of an Action
2. Levels of Intention
3. The Tacit Side of Intention
4. The Vertical, Forward, and Lateral Dimensions
CHAPTER 3. VALUATION
1. The Greek Debate
2. Medieval Conceptions of Value
3. The Naturalistic Fallacy
4. Prescriptivism
5. Descriptivism
CHAPTER 4. OBLIGATION
1. Three Preparatory Distinctions
2. Moral Urgency and Other Oughts
3. Why Be Moral?
4. The Necessity of Interagency
CHAPTER 5: THE MORAL COMMUNITY
1. The Rightness of Rules
2. Self-Imposed Heteronomy
3. Three Conceptions of Harmony
CHAPTER 6: THE MORAL DOMAIN
1. The Model
2. Applied Geometry
3. Some Ongoing Discussions of Moral Agency
INDEX

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