Self-Interest: Volume 14, Part 1

Klappentext These essays examine the nature of self-interest and the relationship between rationality and morality. Zusammenfassung In much of contemporary moral philosophy! concern for one's own interests is considered a non-moral issue! while concern for the interests of others is paradigmatically moral. These essays examine the nature of self-interest and the relationship between rationality and morality. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Beyond self and other Kelly Rogers; 2. The wisdom of the egoist: the moral and political implications of valuating the self Jean Hampton; 3. Reasonable self-interest Thomas E. Hill Jr; 4. Gyges' Choice: overridingness and the Unity of Reason David Copp; 5. Self-Interest: What's in It for Me? David Schmidtz; 6. Self-Love and Altruism David O. Brink; 7. Self-Interest and Self-Concern Stephen Darwall; 8. Who is rational economic man? Jennifer Roback Morse; 9. Happiness and meaning: two aspects of the good life Susan Wolf; 10. Self-Interest and virtue Neera K. Badhwar; 11. The virtue in self-interest Michael Slote; 12. Self-interest, altruism, and virtue Thomas Hurka.

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• Authors: Ellen Frankel Paul, Ellen Frankel (Bowling Green State Universit Paul, Ellen Frankel Miller Paul
• Assisted by: Fred Dycus Miller (Editor), Fred Dycus Jr. Miller (Editor), Fred D. Miller Jr (Editor), Ellen Frankel Paul (Editor), Jeffrey Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.1997
• EAN: 9780521598927
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59892-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Social Philosophy and Policy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works