Desire, practical reason, and the good: classical and contemporary perspectives

The 'Guise of the Good' thesis - the view that desire, intention, or action) always aims at the good - has received renewed attention in the last twenty years. The book brings together work on various issues related to this thesis both from contemporary and historical perspectives. INDICE: 1.: Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto), Introduction; 2.:Matt Evans (New York University), A Partisan Guide to Socratic Intellectualism.; 3.: Rachel Barney (University of Toronto), Plato on the Desire for the Good.; 4.: Jessica Moss (University of Oxford), Aristotle's non-trivial, non-insane view that everyone always desires things under the guise of the good.; 5.: Kieran Setiya (University of Pittsburgh), Sympathy for the Devil.; 6.: Joseph Raz (University of Oxford), The Guise of the Good; 7.: Sebastian Rödl (University of Basel), The Form of the Will; 8.: Matthew Boyle and Doug Lavin (HarvardUniversity), Goodness and Desire.; 9.: Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto), Good and Good For.; 10.: Phil Clark (University of Toronto), Aspects, Guises, Species, and Knowing Something to be Good.

• ISBN: 978-0-19-538244-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 26/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés