The Guise of the Good and the Problem of Over-Intellectualism

Journal of Value Inquiry 48 (3):489-501 (2014)
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I will argue that Raz’s defense of the doctrine of the guise of the good rests on a over-intellectualized account of action. Raz holds that attributing evaluative beliefs to agents is justified on explanatory grounds. I argue that this account fails to do justice to the first-personal character of action explanation. Moreover, I will argue that Raz’s account of action has its root in his restrictive and over-intellectualized understanding of normative explanation. I will suggest that we can have a more plausible understanding of the guise of the good that is not over-intellectualized, if we adopt a broader understanding of normative explanation

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Internal and External Reasons.Bernard Williams - 1979 - In Ross Harrison (ed.), Rational action: studies in philosophy and social science. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 101-113.
Reason, Reasons and Normativity.Joseph Raz - 2010 - In Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume 5. Oxford University Press.
Reasons : Explanatory and normative.Joseph Raz - 2009 - In Constantine Sandis (ed.), New essays on the explanation of action. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Reason, Reasons and Normativity.Joseph Raz - 2010 - Oxford Studies in Metaethics 5.

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