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Normativity and the Will - Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason (Paperback)
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Normativity and the Will - Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason (Paperback)
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Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important papers on
moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay Wallace, one of the
leading philosophers currently working in these areas. The papers
explore the interpenetration of normative and psychological issues
in a series of debates that lie at the heart of moral philosophy.
Part I, Reason, Desire, and the Will, discusses the nexus linking
normativity to motivation, including the relations between desire
and reasons, the role of normative considerations in explanations
of action, and the normative commitments involved in willing an end
(such as the requirement to adopt the necessary means). Part II,
Responsibility, Identification, and Emotion, looks at questions
about the rational capacities presupposed by accountable agency and
the psychic factors that both inhibit and enable identification
with what we do. It includes an interpretation of the Nietzschean
claim that ressentiment is among the sources of modern moral
consciousness. Part III, Morality and Other Normative Domains,
addresses the structure of moral reasons and moral motivation, and
the relations between moral demands and other normative domains
(including especially the requirements of living a meaningful human
life). Wallace's treatments of these topics are at once
sophisticated and engaging. Taken together, they constitute an
advertisement for a distinctive way of pursuing issues in moral
psychology and the theory of practical reason. The book articulates
and defends a unified framework for thinking about those issues,
while offering sustained critical discussions of other influential
approaches (by philosophers such as Korsgaard, McDowell, Nietzsche,
Raz, Scanlon, and Williams). It should be of interest to every
serious student of moral philosophy.
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