Making sense of humanity and other philosophical papers, 1982-1993 /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Bernard Williams
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 251 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. How free does the will need to be? -- 2. Voluntary acts and responsible agents -- 3. Internal reasons and the obscurity of blame -- 4. Moral incapacity -- 5. Acts and omissions, doing and not doing -- 6. Nietzsche's minimalist moral psychology -- 7. Making sense of humanity -- 8. Evolutionary theory and epistemology -- 9. Evolution, ethics, and the representation problem -- 10. Formal structures and social reality -- 11. Formal and substantial individualism -- 12. Saint-Just's illusion -- 13. The point of view of the universe: Sidgwick and the ambitions of ethics -- 14. Ethics and the fabric of the world -- 15. What does intuitionism imply? -- 16. Professional morality and its dispositions -- 17. Who needs ethical knowledge? -- 18. Which slopes are slippery? -- 19. Resenting one's own existence -- 20. Must a concern for the environment be centred on human beings? -- 21. Moral luck: a postscript