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Logic of Commitment [PDF ebook]

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This book develops and defends a conception of commitment and explores its limits. Gary Chartier shows how commitment serves to resolve conflicts between ordinary moral intuitions and the reality that the basic aspects of human well-being are incommensurable. He outlines a variety of overlapping and mutually reinforcing rationales for making commitments, explores the relationship between commitment and vocation and the relevance of commitment to love, and notes some reasons why it...

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 114 ● ISBN 9781351401661 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2017 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5320684 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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