The Robust Demands of the Good

Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-880130-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Reihe: Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics

Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require not only their characteristic positive behaviours in the actual world (i.e. as things are), but preservation of those characteristic behaviours across a range of counterfactual scenarios in which things are different from how they actually are. The counterfactual 'robustness', in this sense, of these behaviours is thus part of
our very conception of these attachments and these virtues. Pettit shows that attachment, virtues, and respect all conform to a similar conceptual geography. He explores the implications of this idea for key moral issues, such as the doctrine of double effect and the distinction between doing and
allowing. He articulates and argues against an assumption, which he calls 'moral behaviourism,' which permeates contemporary ethics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pettit, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Pettit is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. He is the author of The Common Mind (OUP, 1996), Republicanism (OUP, 1997), A Theory of Freedom (OUP, 2001), and Rules, Reasons, and Norms (OUP 2002), and co-author of The Economy of Esteem (OUP, 2004), with Geoffrey Brennan; Mind, Morality, and Explanation (OUP, 2004), and Group Agency
(OUP, 2011), with Christian List.