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Hobbes and the two faces of ethics /

1108277314

1108281001

9781108277310

9781108281003

1108417299

9781108404877

9781108417297

Hobbes and the two faces of ethics /

[Book]

arash abizadeh, mcgill university, montreal.

New York, NY, USA :

Cambridge University Press,

2018.

1 online resource (1 volume)

Includes bibliographical references.

Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Methodological Preliminaries; On Normativity and 'Reason'; The Overarching Argument; Part I The Metaethics of Reasons; Chapter 1 Naturalism; 1.1 An Error Theory; 1.2 Descriptivist Reductionism; 1.3 Reasoning-Based Descriptivist Reductionism; 1.4 Noncognitivist Prescriptivism; 1.5 A Hybrid Theory: Reasoning-Based and Prescriptivist; Chapter 2 Mind, Action, and Reasoning; 2.1 Practical Deliberation Is Partly Cognitive; 2.2 Is Hobbesian Reasoning Passive?

2.3 Linguistic Reasoning is Reflectively Reason-Responsive2.4 The Failure of the Hybrid Reading; Part II Reasons of the Good; Chapter 3 Subjectivism, Instrumentalism, and Prudentialism about Reasons; 3.1 Conative Subjectivism about Reasons? The Problem of Instrumental Transmission; 3.2 Instrumentalism about Reasons? The Problem of Time; 3.3 Prudentialism about Reasons; 3.4 Cognitive Subjectivism about Reasons? Epistemically Relativized Objective Reasons; 3.5 Suicide, Laws of Nature, and a Life Worth Living: Self-Preservation Is Not Survival

5.3 The Interest and the Will Theories of Direction5.4 Owing an Obligation versus Being Held Accountable; 5.5 Legal Accountability and Punishment; 5.6 No Accountability for Intentions; Chapter 6 The Laws of Nature, Morality, and Justice; 6.1 The Meaning of 'Moral'; 6.2 Reasons of the Right Cannot Be Derived from Reasons of the Good; 6.3 The Relation between Natural Law and Obligation; 6.4 The Relation between Natural Law and Civil Law; 6.5 Two Puzzles about Natural Right and Natural Law; Chapter 7 Rational Agency and Personhood; 7.1 Entities, Voluntary Agents, and Rational Agents

7.2 Persons: Representer or Represented?7.3 Natural Persons Are Authors; 7.4 Artificial Persons: True and By Fiction; 7.5 Accountability Is Interpersonal: No Accountability to Oneself; Conclusion: Naturalism and Normativity; Works Cited; Index

Chapter 4 A Theory of the Good: Felicity by Anticipatory Pleasure4.1 Four Distinct Questions about Goodness and 'Good'; 4.2 The Meaning of 'Good': The Customary versus Reforming Sense; 4.3 What Makes a Life Good: Anticipatory Pleasure; 4.4 Two Complications for the Meaning of 'Good': Prescriptively Subversive Circumstances; 4.5 Prescriptively Self-Fulfilling Circumstances; Part III Reasons of the Right; Chapter 5 Accountability and Obligations; 5.1 Three Types of Responsibility and Blame: Non-Normative, Critical, and Reactive; 5.2 Directed Obligations

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Reading Hobbes in light of both the history of ethics and the conceptual apparatus developed in recent work on normativity, this book challenges received interpretations of Hobbes and his historical significance. Arash Abizadeh uncovers the fundamental distinction underwriting Hobbes's ethics: between prudential reasons of the good, articulated via natural laws prescribing the means of self-preservation, and reasons of the right or justice, comprising contractual obligations for which we are accountable to others. He shows how Hobbes's distinction marks a watershed in the transition from the ancient Greek to the modern conception of ethics, and demonstrates the relevance of Hobbes's thought to current debates about normativity, reasons, and responsibility. His book will interest Hobbes scholars, historians of ethics, moral philosophers, and political theorists.

Hobbes and the two faces of ethics.

9781108417297

Hobbes, Thomas,1588-1679.

Hobbes, Thomas,1588-1679.

Applied ethics.

Ethics, Modern-- 17th century.

Natural law.

Applied ethics.

Ethics, Modern.

Natural law.

PHILOSOPHY-- History & Surveys-- Modern.

PHI-- 016000

Abizadeh, Arash

20200822150803.0

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