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Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry Into Moral Agency

By Nomy Arpaly

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0195179765, 9780195179767, 0195152042, 9780195152043, 9781423763123
Open Library ID
OL15554673M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10108818 bytes)
Pages
208\214
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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