Subjective accounts of well-being and reasons for action have a remarkable pedigree. The idea that normativity flows from what an agent cares about-that something is valuable because it is valued-has appealed to a wide range of great thinkers. But at the same time this idea has seemed to many of the best minds in ethics to be outrageous or worse, not least because it seems to threaten the status of morality. Mutual incomprehension looms over the discussion. From Valuing to Value, written by an influential former critic of subjectivism, owns up to the problematic features to which critics have pointed while arguing that such criticisms can be blunted and the overall view rendered defensible. In this collection of his essays David Sobel does not shrink fromacknowledging the real tension between subjective views of reasons and morality, yet argues that such a tension does not undermine subjectivism. In this volume the fundamental commitments of subjectivism are clarified and revealed to be rather plausible and well-motivated, while the most influential criticisms of subjectivism are straightforwardly addressed and found wanting.
David Sobel
From Valuing to Value [EPUB ebook]
A Defense of Subjectivism
From Valuing to Value [EPUB ebook]
A Defense of Subjectivism
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9780192507532 ● Maison d’édition OUP Oxford ● Publié 2016 ● Téléchargeable 3 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 5281719 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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