The Possibility of Altruism /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Nagel, Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
©1979
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Postscript
  • Contents
  • Part One: Ethics and Human Motivation
  • I. The Foundation of Morals
  • II. The Traditional Controversy
  • III. The Solution
  • IV. Necessity and Interpretation
  • Part Two: Subjective Reasons and Prudence
  • V. Desires
  • VI. Prudential Motives and the Present
  • VII. Reasons
  • VIII. The Interpretation of Prudential Reasons: Identity over Time
  • Part Three: Objective Reasons and Altruism
  • IX. Altruism: The Intuitive Issue
  • X. Objective Reasons
  • XI. Solipsism, Dissociation, and the Impersonal Standpoint
  • XII. The Interpretation of Objective Reasons
  • XIII. The Consequences
  • XIV. Conclusion
  • Index

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