According to the natural law account of practical rationality, the basic reasons for actions are basic goods that are grounded in the nature of human beings. Practical rationality aims to identify and characterize reasons for action and to explain how choice between actions worth performing can be appropriately governed by rational standards. Natural Law and Practical Rationality is a defense of a contemporary natural law theory of practical rationality, demonstrating its inherent plausibility and engaging systematically with rival egoist, consequentialist, Kantian and virtue accounts.
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According to the natural law account of practical rationality, the basic reasons for actions are basic goods that are grounded in the nature of human beings. Practical rationality aims to identify and characterize reasons for action and to explain how choice between actions worth performing can be appropriately governed by rational standards. Natural Law and Practical Rationality is a defense of a contemporary natural law theory of practical rationality, demonstrating its inherent plausibility and engaging systematically with rival egoist, consequentialist, Kantian and virtue accounts.
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The natural law theorist aims to fulfill the first task of a theory of practical reasoning (to provide an account of the reasons that make action intelligible; see 0.1) by offering a catalog of basic goods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
practically significant choice, formal objectivism, fundamental reasons for action, unhelpful propositions, practically reasonable agent, strong subjectivism, formal objectivist, fundamental practical sense, weak subjectivism, conceptual subjectivism, normative openness, objectified subjective interests, practical reasonableness, fundamental practical truths, fundamental reason for action, grounding thesis, individuating desires, hierarchy thesis, moral ought judgments, indifference objection, developing human nature, natural law view, external reasons statements, natural law account, perfectionist value Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The natural law theorist aims to fulfill the first task of a theory of practical reasoning (to provide an account of the reasons that make action intelligible; see 0.1) by offering a catalog of basic goods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
practically significant choice, formal objectivism, fundamental reasons for action, unhelpful propositions, practically reasonable agent, strong subjectivism, formal objectivist, fundamental practical sense, weak subjectivism, conceptual subjectivism, normative openness, objectified subjective interests, practical reasonableness, fundamental practical truths, fundamental reason for action, grounding thesis, individuating desires, hierarchy thesis, moral ought judgments, indifference objection, developing human nature, natural law view, external reasons statements, natural law account, perfectionist value Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Will Clark, Nicomachean Ethics, A's B-ing, Summa Theologiae, Welfarism Does Not Imply, A's Grade New!
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- Summa Theologiae: Volume 2, Existence and Nature of God: 1a. 2-11 (Summa Theologiae (Cambridge University Press)) by Thomas Aquinas on 10 pages
- Summa Theologiae by St.Thomas Aquinas on 10 pages
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 9 pages
- Natural Law, Vol. 1 (The International Library of Essays in Law & Legal Theory, Schools 1.1) by John Finnis on page 43, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Natural Law (The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory. Second Series) by Robert P. George in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Morality Matters by Roger Trigg on page 37, and Back Matter
- Morality Matters by Roger Trigg on page 37, and Back Matter
- Alasdair MacIntyre (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus) by Mark C. Murphy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) by Giovanni Boniolo in Front Matter, and page 119
- Norms Of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis For Non-Perfectionist Politics by Douglas B. Rasmussen on page 158, and page 314
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