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Zusatztext In little more than one hundred and fifty pages of lively prose Reason and the Good covers half a dozen fundamental issues in normative theory, any one of which could easily fill a book on its own...a useful panoramic view of one intuitionist approach to normative theory, one that should be valuable to non-specialists, graduate students, and even advanced undergraduates. Klappentext In Reasons and the Good Roger Crisp answers some of the oldest questions in moral philosophy. Fundamental to ethics, he claims, is the idea of ultimate reasons for action; and he argues controversially that these reasons don't depend on moral concepts. He investigates the nature of reasons themselves, and how we come to know them. He defends a hedonistic theory of well-being and an account of practical reason according to which we can give some, though not overriding, priority to our own good over that of others. Zusammenfassung Answers some of the questions in moral philosophy. The author claims that the idea of ultimate reasons for action is fundamental to ethics, and argues controversially that these reasons do not depend on moral concepts. He also investigates the nature of reasons themselves, and how we come to know them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Morality 2: Reasons 3: Knowledge 4: Well-being 5: Practical Reason 6: Equality
