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Motivation Ethics (Hardcover)
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Motivation Ethics (Hardcover)
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This is a book about a particular moral theory - motivation ethics
- and why we should accept it. But it is also a book about moral
theorizing, about how we might compare different structures of
moral theory. In principle we might morally evaluate a range of
objects: we might, for example, evaluate what people do - is some
action right, wrong, permitted, forbidden, a duty or beyond what is
required? Or we might evaluate agents: what is it to be morally
heroic, or morally depraved, or highly moral? And, we could
evaluate institutions: which ones are just, or morally better, or
legitimate? Most theories focus on one (or two) of these and offer
arguments against rivals. What this book does is to step back and
ask a different question: of the theories that evaluate one object,
are they compatible with an acceptable account of the evaluation of
the other objects? So, for instance, if a moral theory tells us
which actions are right and wrong, well can it then be compatible
with a theory of what it is to be a morally good or bad or heroic
or depraved agent (or deny the need for this)? It seems that this
would be an easy task, but the book sets out how this is very
difficult for some of our most prominent theories, why this is so,
and why a theory based on motivations might be the right answer.
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