The sources of normativity /

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Author / Creator:	Korsgaard, Christine M. (Christine Marion)
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 273 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Normativity (Ethics) Philosophy. Ethical Theory. Normativity (Ethics) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11181015

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Other authors / contributors:	O'Neill, Onora, 1941-
ISBN:	9781107362345 1107362342 9781107367258 1107367255 9780511554476 0511554478 0521550599 9780521550598 052155960X 9780521559607
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-265) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. But where does their authority over us come from? Korsgaard identifies 4 accounts of the source of normativity, traces their history and compares their early and contemporary versions.
Other form:	Print version: Korsgaard, Christine M. (Christine Marion). Sources of normativity. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996 0521550599

Table of Contents:

Prologue. Excellence and obligation: a very concise history of western metaphysics 387 BC to 1887 AD / Christine Korsgaard
The normative question / Christine Korsgaard
Reflective endorsement / Christine Korsgaard
The authority of reflection / Christine Korsgaard
The origin of value and the scope of obligation / Christine Korsgaard
Reason, humanity, and the moral law / G.A. Cohen
Morality and identity / Raymound Geuss
Universality and the reflective self / Thomas Nagel
History, morality, and the test of reflection / Bernard Williams
Reply / Christine Korsgaard.

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