The Constitution of Agency

Produktbeschreibung

Christine M. Korsgaard is one of today's leading moral philosophers: this volume collects ten influential papers by her on practical reason and moral psychology. She draws on the work of such great philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hume, showing how their ideas can inform the solution of contemporary and traditional problems. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Part One: The Principles of Practical Reason


* 1: The Normativity of Instrumental Reason


* 2: The Myth of Egoism


* 3: Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant


* Part Two: Moral Virtue and Moral Psychology


* 4: Aristotle's Function Argument


* 5: Aristotle on Function and Virtue


* 6: From Duty and for the Sake of the Noble: Kant and Aristotle on Morally
Good Action


* 7: Acting for a Reason


* Part Three: Other Reflections


* 8: Taking the Law into Our Own Hands: Kant on the Right to Revolution


* 9: The General Point of View: Love and Moral Approval in Hume's Ethics


* 10: Realism and Constructivism in 20th Century Moral Philosophy 

Autoreninfo

Christine M. Korsgaard earned her B.A. at the University of Illinois in 1974, her Ph.D. at Harvard University, where she studied with John Rawls, in 1981, and an LHD at the University of Illinois in 2004. She is currently Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She works on moral philosophy and its history, practical reason, agency, personal identity, and the relations between human beings and the other animals.