Agency and the Foundations of Ethics - Nietzschean Constitutivism

Zusatztext Katsafanas's thesis is novel and imaginative, both in itself and as a reading of Nietzsche. Informationen zum Autor Paul Katsafanas is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He works in ethics, action theory, and nineteenth-century philosophy. Klappentext Paul Katsafanas explores how we can justify normative claims such as 'murder is wrong'. He defends an original account of constitutivism¿the view that we do so by showing that agents become committed to them in virtue of acting¿and resolves philosophical puzzles about the metaphysics, epistemology, and practical grip of normative claims. Zusammenfassung Paul Katsafanas explores how we can justify normative claims such as 'murder is wrong'. He defends an original account of constitutivism--the view that we do so by showing that agents become committed to them in virtue of acting--and resolves philosophical puzzles about the metaphysics, epistemology, and practical grip of normative claims.

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• Authors: Paul Katsafanas, Paul (Boston University) Katsafanas, Katsafanas Paul
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2015
• EAN: 9780198748144
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874814-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge