Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry Into Moral Agency
Oxford University Press (2003)
| Abstract | Nomy Arpaly rejects the model of rationality used by most ethicists and action theorists. Both observation and psychology indicate that people act rationally without deliberation, and act irrationally with deliberation. By questioning the notion that our own minds are comprehensible to us--and therefore questioning much of the current work of action theorists and ethicists--Arpaly attempts to develop a more realistic conception of moral agency. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Ethics Psychology and philosophy Moral Worth Huck Finn Hucklberry Finn | |||||||||
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| Call number | BJ45.A76 2003 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0195179765 0195152042 9780195179767 | |||||||||
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