Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 547 g
Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 547 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-530585-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
The relationship between morality and self-interest is a perennial one in philosophy, at the center of moral theory. It goes back to Plato's Republic, which debated whether living morally was in a person's best interest or simply for dupes. Hobbes also claimed that morality was not in the best interests of the individual; Kant, however, thought that morality ought to be followed anyway even if it was not in a person's interest. Aristotle, Hume, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche all had much to say on the subject, and contemporary philosophers like Thomas Nagel and David Gauthier discuss it a good deal as well. Little of the contemporary work has been published in book format however. Bloomfield's edited volume is the first such book truly devoted to this important topic, presenting brand new, commissioned articles on this subject by some of the top philosophers working today.
Bloomfield provides an introduction to the topic and its place in philosophical history in his introduction. The volume will then be divided into three sections. The first will lay out the two sides of the debate; the second will cover views on morality as external to the self and thus not in our self-interest; and the third will focus on morality as intrinsic to the self and thus in our self-interest. Contributions includes newly published work by 13 top-notch philosophers, among them Thomas Nagel, Julia Annas, Samuel Scheffler, David Schmidtz, and Terence Irwin, as well as a previously published piece by W. D. Falk. The volume will act as a useful collection of scholarship by top figures, and as a resource and course book on an important topic.
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- Introduction
- 1: Christopher Morris, University of Maryland: The Trouble with Justice
- 2: Mathias Risse, Harvard University: Neitzche on Selfishness, Justice, and the Duties of Higher Men
- 3: Richard Joyce, Australia National University: Morality, Schmorality
- 4: David Schmitz, University of Arizona: Because It's Right
- 5: Thomas Nagel, New York University: The Value of Inviolability
- 6: Samuel Scheffler, Berkeley College: Potential Congruence
- 7: Stephen Finlay, University of Southern California: Too Much Morality
- 8: Terence Irwin, Cornell University: Scotus and the Possibility of Moral Motivation
- 9: Ralph Wedgwood, Oxford University: Butler on Virtue, Self Interest, and Human Nature
- 10: Julia Annas, University of Arizona: Virtue Ethics and the Charge of Egoism
- 11: W.D. Falk, formerly UNC Chapel Hill: Morality, Self, and Others
- 12: Paul Bloomfield, University of Connecticut: Why It's Bad to be Bad
- 13: Joel Kupperman, University of Connecticut: Classical and Sour Forms of Virtue
- 14: Michael Stocker, Syracuse University: Shame and Guilt: Self Interest and Morality
- Biblography
