Reasons, Rights, and Values

Description

A central concern in recent ethical thinking is reasons for action and their relation to obligations, rights, and values. This collection of recent essays by Robert Audi presents an account of what reasons for action are, how they are related to obligation and rights, and how they figure in virtuous conduct. In addition, Audi reflects in his opening essay on his theory of reasons for action, his common-sense intuitionism, and his widely debated principles for balancing religion and politics. Reasons are shown to be basic elements in motivation, grounded in experience, and crucial for justifying actions and for understanding rights. Audi's clear and engaging essays make these advanced debates accessible to students as well as scholars, and this volume will be a valuable resource for readers interested in ethical theory, political theory, applied ethics, or philosophy of action. 01.0_pp_i_iv_Frontmatter 02.0_pp_v_vi_Contents 03.0_pp_vii_viii_Preface 04.0_pp_ix_x_Acknowledgments 05.0_pp_1_10_Introduction_practical_reason_moral_justification_and_the_grounds_of_value 06.0_pp_11_12_REASONS_FOR_ACTION 06.1_pp_13_40_Reasons_practical_reason_and_practical_reasoning 06.2_pp_41_70_Intrinsic_value_and_reasons_for_action 06.3_pp_71_96_The_grounds_and_structure_of_reasons_for_action 06.4_pp_97_126_Practical_reason_and_the_status_of_moral_obligation 07.0_pp_127_128_INTUITION_OBLIGATION_AND_VIRTUE 07.1_pp_129_159_Intuitions_intuitionism_and_moral_judgment 07.2_pp_160_181_Kantian_intuitionism_as_a_framework_for_the_justification_of_moral_judgments 07.3_pp_182_202_Moral_virtue_and_reasons_for_action 07.4_pp_203_226_Virtue_ethics_in_theory_and_practice 08.0_pp_227_228_RELIGION_POLITICS_AND_THE_OBLIGATIONS_OF_CITIZENSHIP 08.1_pp_229_248_Wrongs_within_rights 08.2_pp_249_277_Religion_and_the_politics_of_science_can_evolutionary_biology_be_religiously_neutral 08.3_pp_278_297_Nationalism_patriotism_and_cosmopolitanism_in_an_age_of_globalization 09.0_pp_298_301_Index