Description

As one of the most important ethicists to emerge since the Second World War, Alan Gewirth continues to influence philosophical debates concerning morality. This book provides a picture of Gewirth's theory and its applications, including such new perspectives as feminism, the Stoics, and Sartre.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Acknowledgments
Part 2 Introduction
Part 3 I. The Normative Structure of Action
Chapter 4 1 The Normative Import of Action
Chapter 5 2 Gewirth and Held on Action and Methodology: A Response to Virginia Held's "The Normative Import of Action"
Chapter 6 3 Anticipating Gewirth: A Critical Disagreement
Chapter 7 4 Values and Ends: Comments on Michael Slote's "Anticipating Gewirth"
Chapter 8 5 Gewirth on Necessary Goods: What Is the Agent Committed to Valuing?
Chapter 9 6 Liberal Agency is Open for Business: A Response to Donald Regan's "Gewirth on Necessary Goods: What Is the Agent Committed to Valuing?"
Part 10 II. Gewirth and Kantianism
Chapter 11 7 Choosing an Ethical Theory
Chapter 12 8 Confronting Moral Theories: Gewirth in Context
Chapter 13 9 Gewirth and Kant on Justifying the Supreme Principle of Morality
Chapter 14 10 A Commentary on Deryck Beyleveld's "Gewirth and Kant on Justifying the Supreme Principle of Morality"
Chapter 15 11 Gewirth's Kantian Consequentialism
Chapter 16 12 The Problem with Simply Promoting Agency: Comment on Cummiskey
Part 17 III. Community, Rationality, and Rights
Chapter 18 13 Community, Mutuality, and Rights
Chapter 19 14 The Existence and Universality of Gewirthian Moral Rights: Comment on Beth J. Singer's "Community, Mutuality, and Rights"
Chapter 20 15 Building on Gewirth: A Defense of Morality
Chapter 21 16 Gewirth, Sterba, and the Justification of Morality
Part 22 IV. Comments by Gewirth
Chapter 23 17 Replies to My Colleagues
Part 24 Bibliography
Part 25 About the Contributors

Product details

Published 23 Dec 1998
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 230
ISBN 9780742581630
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Michael Boylan

Contributor

Anita Allen

Contributor

David Cummiskey

Contributor

David DeGrazia

Contributor

Alan Gewirth

Contributor

Virginia Held

Contributor

Barbara Koziak

Contributor

Donald Regan

Contributor

Jeffrey Reiman

Contributor

Beth J. Singer

Contributor

Michael Slote

Contributor

Edward Spence

Contributor

James P. Sterba

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