Subjective accounts of well-being and reasons for action have a
remarkable pedigree. The idea that normativity flows from what an
agent cares about-that something is valuable because it is
valued-has appealed to a wide range of great thinkers. But at the
same time this idea has seemed to many of the best minds in ethics
to be outrageous or worse, not least because it seems to threaten
the status of morality. Mutual incomprehension looms over the
discussion. From Valuing to Value, written by an influential former
critic of subjectivism, owns up to the problematic features to
which critics have pointed while arguing that such criticisms can
be blunted and the overall view rendered defensible. In this
collection of his essays David Sobel does not shrink from
acknowledging the real tension between subjective views of reasons
and morality, yet argues that such a tension does not undermine
subjectivism. In this volume the fundamental commitments of
subjectivism are clarified and revealed to be rather plausible and
well-motivated, while the most influential criticisms of
subjectivism are straightforwardly addressed and found wanting.
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