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Why Be Moral? / Beatrix Himmelmann, Robert Louden.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110366396
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleLOC classification:
  • BJ
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Investigating the Question -- Why Be Moral - A Pseudo-Problem? -- Why Be Moral: A Meaningful Question? -- Part II: Exploring Viable Answers -- Why Be Moral? A New Answer to an Old Question -- Aristotle on Virtuous Questioning of Morality -- The Egoistic Answer -- Why Be Moral? An Argument from the Human Condition in Response to Hobbes and Nietzsche -- Morality, Self-Constitution, and the Limits of Integrity -- What is Kant's Precise Answer to the Question 'Why Be Moral'? -- The "Why Be Moral?" Question and the Meaning of Life -- Why Be Moral? A Kierkegaardian Approach -- Acknowledging the Moral Law -- "Why Be Moral?" Pragmatism's Attempt to Dismiss the Issue -- Is the Overridingness of Moral Reasons a Semantic Fact? -- Williams on Integrity, Ground Projects and Reasons to Be Moral -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why be Moral? is a collection of new essays on this fundamental philosophical problem, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Investigating the Question -- Why Be Moral - A Pseudo-Problem? -- Why Be Moral: A Meaningful Question? -- Part II: Exploring Viable Answers -- Why Be Moral? A New Answer to an Old Question -- Aristotle on Virtuous Questioning of Morality -- The Egoistic Answer -- Why Be Moral? An Argument from the Human Condition in Response to Hobbes and Nietzsche -- Morality, Self-Constitution, and the Limits of Integrity -- What is Kant's Precise Answer to the Question 'Why Be Moral'? -- The "Why Be Moral?" Question and the Meaning of Life -- Why Be Moral? A Kierkegaardian Approach -- Acknowledging the Moral Law -- "Why Be Moral?" Pragmatism's Attempt to Dismiss the Issue -- Is the Overridingness of Moral Reasons a Semantic Fact? -- Williams on Integrity, Ground Projects and Reasons to Be Moral -- Contributors -- Index

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What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why be Moral? is a collection of new essays on this fundamental philosophical problem, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field.

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