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Morality and Self-Interest.
Title:
Morality and Self-Interest.
Author:
Bloomfield, Paul.
ISBN:
9780198041702
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (334 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: MORALITY WITHOUT SELF-INTEREST -- A. Morality on the Defensive -- 1 The Trouble with Justice -- 2 Nietzsche on Selfishness, Justice, and the Duties of the Higher Men -- 3 Morality, Schmorality -- B. Morality on the Offensive -- 4 Because It's Right -- 5 The Value of Inviolability -- C. Potential Congruence and Irreconcilability -- 6 Potential Congruence -- 7 Too Much Morality -- PART II: MORALITY WITHIN SELF-INTEREST -- A. Morality as Necessary to Self-Interest -- 8 Scotus and the Possibility of Moral Motivation -- 9 Butler on Virtue, Self-Interest, and Human Nature -- 10 Virtue Ethics and the Charge of Egoism -- B. Morality as Indistinguishable from Self-Interest -- 11 Morality, Self, and Others -- 12 Why It's Bad to Be Bad -- 13 Classical and Sour Forms of Virtue -- 14 Shame and Guilt -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Ever since "Know Thyself" was inscribed at Delphi, Western philosophers have struggled to understand the relations between morality and self-interest. This edited volume of essays pushes forward one of the oldest and most important debates in philosophy. Is morality a check on self-interest or is it in one's self interest to be moral? Can morality and self-interest be understood independently of each other?.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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