Agency and the foundations of ethics Nietzschean constitutivism
Title:
Agency and the foundations of ethics Nietzschean constitutivism
Author:
Katsafanas, Paul.
ISBN:
9780191654794
9780199645077
9781299261686
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Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 267 p.)
Contents:
Three challenges for ethical theory -- Normativity as inescapability -- Constitutivism and self-knowledge -- Constitutivism and self-constitution -- Action's first constitutive aim : agential activity -- Action's second constitutive aim : power -- The structure of Nietzschean constitutivism -- The normative results generated by Nietzschean constitutivism -- Activity, power, and the foundations of ethics.
Abstract:
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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