Practical Reasoning about Final EndsCambridge University Press, 25 พ.ย. 1994 - 326 หน้า How should we reason about what we do? The answer offered by most recent philosophy, as well as such disciplines as decision theory, welfare economics, and political science, is that we should select efficient means to our ends. However, if we ask how we should decide which ends or goals to aim at, these standard theoretical approaches are silent.Henry Richardson argues that we can determine our ends rationally. He constructs a rich and original theory of how we can reason about what to seek for its own sake as a final goal. Richardson defuses the counter-arguments for the limits of rational deliberation, and develops interesting ideas about how his model might be extended to interpersonal deliberation of ends, taking him to the borders of political theory. Along the way Richardson offers illuminating discussions of, inter alia, Aristotle, Aquinas, Sidgwick, and Dewey, as well as the work of several contemporary philosophers. |
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Introduction | 3 |
Disagreement in concept and in practice 250 | 39 |
Ends in deliberation | 49 |
Specifying ends | 69 |
Value incommensurability | 89 |
Is commensurability a prerequisite of rational choice? | 119 |
Practical coherence | 143 |
Reflective sovereignty | 159 |
References 309 | 166 |
+ W N N B | 180 |
Sources and limits | 193 |
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