Normativity and the will : selected papers on moral psychology and practical reason /

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Author / Creator:	Wallace, R. Jay.
Imprint:	Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Description:	1 online resource (347 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Normativity (Ethics) Will. Practical reason. Normativity (Ethics) Practical reason. Will. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11150277

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ISBN:	9781429430814 1429430818 9780199287499 019928749X 0199287481
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important papers on moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay Wallace, one of the leading philosophers currently working in these areas. The papers explore the interpenetration of normative and psychological issues in a series of debates that lie at the heart of moral philosophy. Part I, Reason, Desire, and the Will, discusses the nexus linking normativity to motivation, including the relations between desire and reasons, the role ofnormative considerations in explanations of action, and the normative commitments involved in willing an end (such as the requirement to adopt the necessary means). Part II, Responsibility, Identification, and Emotion, looks at questions about the rational capacities presupposed by accountableagency and the psychic factors that both inhibit and enable identification with what we do. It includes an interpretation of the Nietzschean claim that ressentiment is among the sources of modern moral consciousness. Part III, Morality and Other Normative Domains, addresses the structure of moralreasons and moral motivation, and the relations between moral demands and other normative domains (including especially the requirements of living a meaningful human life). Wallace's treatments of these topics are at once sophisticated and engaging. Taken together, they constitute an advertisement for a distinctive way of pursuing issues in moral psychology and the theory of practical reason. The book articulates and defends a unified framework for thinking about thoseissues, while offering sustained critical discussions of other influential approaches (by philosophers such as Korsgaard, McDowell, Nietzsche, Raz, Scanlon, and Williams). It should be of interest to every serious student of moral philosophy.
Other form:	Print version: Wallace, R. Jay. Normativity and the will. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 019928749X 0199287481

Table of Contents:

How to argue about practical reason
Three conceptions of rational agency
Explanation, deliberation, and reasons
Normativity and the will
Normativity, commitment, and instrumental reason
Reason and responsibility
Moral responsibility and the practical point of view
Addiction as defect of the will : some philosophical reflections
Caring, reflexivity, and the structure of volition
Ressentiment, value, and self-vindication : making sense of Nietzsche's slave revolt
Virtue, reason, and principle
Scanlon's contractualism
The rightness of acts and the goodness of lives
Moral reasons and moral fetishes : rationalists and anti-rationalists on moral motivation.

Normativity and the will : selected papers on moral psychology and practical reason /

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