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Practical Reasoning about Final Ends (Hardcover, New)
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Practical Reasoning about Final Ends (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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How should we reason about what to do? The answer offered by most
recent philosophy, as well as such disciplines as decision theory,
welfare economics, and political science, is that we should select
efficient means to our ends. However, if we ask how we should
decide which ends or goals to aim at, these standard theoretical
approaches are silent. Henry Richardson argues that we can
determine our ends rationally. He constructs a rich and original
theory of how we can reason about what to seek for its own sake as
a final end. Richardson defuses the counter-arguments for the
limits of rational deliberation and develops interesting ideas
about how his model might be extended to interpersonal deliberation
of ends, taking him to the borders of political theory. Along the
way Richardson offers illuminating discussions of, inter alia,
Aristotle, Aquinas, Sidgwick, and Dewey, as well as the work of
several contemporary philosophers. This is a book of major
importance to a broad swath of philosophers as well as social and
political scientists.
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