Life and Action: Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought
Harvard University Press (2008)
| Abstract | Part I: The representation of life -- Can life be given a real definition? -- The representation of the living individual -- The representation of the life-form itself -- Part II: Naive action theory -- Types of practical explanation -- Naive explanation of action -- Action and time -- Part III: Practical generality -- Two tendencies in practical philosophy -- Practices and dispositions as sources of the goodness of individual actions -- Practice and disposition as sources of individual action. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Ethics Conduct of life Life Agent (Philosophy Act (Philosophy | |||||||||
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| Call number | BJ37.T49 2008 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780674016705 067401670X | |||||||||
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