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Author : Nathan P. Adams
Release : 2018
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Book Synopsis Introduction to the Special Issue on Philip Pettit's The Robust Demands of the Good by : Nathan P. Adams
Download or read book Introduction to the Special Issue on Philip Pettit's The Robust Demands of the Good written by Nathan P. Adams. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Pettit
Release : 2015
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Robust Demands of the Good by : Philip Pettit
Download or read book The Robust Demands of the Good written by Philip Pettit. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require not only their characteristic positive behaviours in the actual world (i.e. as things are), but preservation of those characteristic behaviours across a range of counterfactual scenarios in which things are different from how they actually are. The counterfactual 'robustness', in this sense, of these behaviours is thus partof our very conception of these attachments and these virtues. Pettit shows that attachment, virtues, and respect all conform to a similar conceptual geography. He explores the implications of thisidea for key moral issues, such as the doctrine of double effect and the distinction between doing and allowing. He articulates and argues against an assumption, which he calls 'moral behaviourism,' which permeates contemporary ethics.
Author : Philip Pettit
Release : 2015-05-14
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Robust Demands of the Good by : Philip Pettit
Download or read book The Robust Demands of the Good written by Philip Pettit. This book was released on 2015-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require not only their characteristic positive behaviours in the actual world (i.e. as things are), but preservation of those characteristic behaviours across a range of counterfactual scenarios in which things are different from how they actually are. The counterfactual 'robustness', in this sense, of these behaviours is thus part of our very conception of these attachments and these virtues. Pettit shows that attachment, virtues, and respect all conform to a similar conceptual geography. He explores the implications of this idea for key moral issues, such as the doctrine of double effect and the distinction between doing and allowing. He articulates and argues against an assumption, which he calls 'moral behaviourism,' which permeates contemporary ethics.
Author : Philip Pettit
Release : 2014-03-10
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World by : Philip Pettit
Download or read book Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World written by Philip Pettit. This book was released on 2014-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom, in Philip Pettit's provocative analysis, requires more than just being let alone. In Just Freedom, a succinct articulation of the republican philosophy for which he is renowned, Pettit builds a theory of universal freedom as nondomination. Seen through this lens, even societies that consider themselves free may find their political arrangements lacking. Do those arrangements protect people's liberties equally? Are they subject to the equally shared control of those they protect? Do they allow the different peoples of the world to live in equal freedom? With elegant, user-friendly tests of freedom--the eyeball test, the tough luck test, and the straight talk test--Pettit addresses these questions, laying out essential yardsticks for policymakers and concerned citizens alike. An invitation to join in a program that would better articulate and realize justice in our social, democratic, and international lives, Just Freedom offers readers an essential starting place for the world's thorniest problems.
Author : Christian List
Release : 2011-04-07
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Group Agency by : Christian List
Download or read book Group Agency written by Christian List. This book was released on 2011-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? How do we explain their behaviour? Can we treat them as accountable for their actions? List and Pettit offer original arguments, grounded in cutting-edge work on social choice, economics, and philosophy, to show there really are group agents, over and above the individual agents who compose them.
