Reasonably vicious /

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Author / Creator:	Vogler, Candace A.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 295 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethics. Practical reason. Ethics. Practical reason. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11219287

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ISBN:	9780674044708 0674044703 0674007417 9780674030725
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-289) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Is unethical conduct necessarily irrational? Answering this question requires giving an account of practical reason, of practical good, and of the source or point of wrongdoing. This text does all three.
Other form:	Print version: Vogler, Candace A. Reasonably vicious. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Instrumentalism about Practical Reason
2. In Some Sense Good
3. Medieval and Modern
4. Pleasure
5. Fit
6. Use
7. The Standard Picture of Practical Reason
8. Ethics
Appendix A. Anscombe's Argument
Appendix B. Anscombe's Objection to Donald Davidson
Appendix C. A Note about Kant and Befitting-Style Desirability Characterizations
Appendix D. Moral Actions, Virtuous Actions, Expressive Actions
Appendix E. Some Notes about the Standard Picture and Formal Work
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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