Being Apart from Reasons - The Role of Reasons in Public and Private Moral Decision-Making (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

Being Apart from Reasons deals with the question of how we should go about using reasons to decide what to do. More particularly, the book presents objections to the most common response given by contemporary legal and political theorists to the moral complexity of decision-making in modern societies, namely: the attempt to release public agents from their argumentative burden by insulating a particular set of reasons from the general pool of reasons and assigning the former systematic priority over all other reasons. If those attempts succeed, public agents should not reason comprehensively, taking into account all reasons and weighing them against one another. Some reasons would be excluded from decision-making by kind.

That strategy is apparent both in Rawlsa (TM) claim that reasons concerning the right are systematically prior to reasons concerning the good and in Raza (TM)s claim that pre-emptive reasons are systematically prior to first-order reasons. The same strategy is also instantiated by certain arguments for the procedural value of law, such as Jeremy Waldrona (TM)s. In the book, each of those arguments for the insulation of reasons is objected to in order to defend the thesis the reasoning by public agents must always be as comprehensive as possible.

In order to reach that conclusion a particular picture of public decision-making in needed. That picture in provided by the comparison between the use of reasons in public and private decision-making which is carried out in the first two chapters of the book. That comparison brings to light peculiar features of public decision-making that imply the need for public agents to reason comprehensively before deciding. Theremaining chapters object to those arguments mentioned above which aim at justifying the exclusion of certain reasons from public agenta (TM)s decision-making.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Law and Philosophy Library, 76
Release date:	March 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Claudio, Jr. Michelon
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	194
Edition:	2006 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-4282-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4020-4282-5
Barcode:	9781402042829

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