| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 273 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-265) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue. Excellence and obligation: a very concise history of western metaphysics 387 BC to 1887 AD / Christine Korsgaard -- The normative question / Christine Korsgaard -- Reflective endorsement / Christine Korsgaard -- The authority of reflection / Christine Korsgaard -- The origin of value and the scope of obligation / Christine Korsgaard -- Reason, humanity, and the moral law / G.A. Cohen -- Morality and identity / Raymound Geuss -- Universality and the reflective self / Thomas Nagel -- History, morality, and the test of reflection / Bernard Williams -- Reply / Christine Korsgaard. |
| Summary |
Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. But where does their authority over us come from? Korsgaard identifies 4 accounts of the source of normativity, traces their history and compares their early and contemporary versions. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Normativity (Ethics)
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Normativity (Ethics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
O'Neill, Onora, 1941-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Korsgaard, Christine M. (Christine Marion). Sources of normativity. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996 0521550599 (DLC) 95012848 (OCoLC)32552432 |
| ISBN |
9781107362345 (electronic book) |
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1107362342 (electronic book) |
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9781107367258 (electronic book) |
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1107367255 (electronic book) |
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9780511554476 (e-book) |
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0511554478 (e-book) |
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0521550599 |
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9780521550598 |
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052155960X |
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9780521559607 |
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