The Possibility of Altruism / / Thomas Nagel.
Just as there are rational requirements on thought, there are rational requirements on action. This book defends a conception of ethics, and a related conception of human nature, according to which altruism is included among the basic rational requirements on desire and action.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©1979 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Preface -- |t Postscript -- |t Contents -- |t Part One: Ethics and Human Motivation -- |t I. The Foundation of Morals -- |t II. The Traditional Controversy -- |t III. The Solution -- |t IV. Necessity and Interpretation -- |t Part Two: Subjective Reasons and Prudence -- |t V. Desires -- |t VI. Prudential Motives and the Present -- |t VII. Reasons -- |t VIII. The Interpretation of Prudential Reasons: Identity over Time -- |t Part Three: Objective Reasons and Altruism -- |t IX. Altruism: The Intuitive Issue -- |t X. Objective Reasons -- |t XI. Solipsism, Dissociation, and the Impersonal Standpoint -- |t XII. The Interpretation of Objective Reasons -- |t XIII. The Consequences -- |t XIV. Conclusion -- |t Index |
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