The Robust Demands of the Good : Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
ISBN-10
0198801300
ISBN-13
9780198801306
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 11th, 2017
Print length
294 Pages
Weight
370 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.60 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
PhilosophyEthics & moral philosophyPsychology
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Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require their characteristic behaviours not only as things actually are, but also in cases where things are different from how they actually are. He explores the implications of this idea for key moral issues.
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.
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