| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Practical reasoning in context; CHAPTER 2 The indistinctness of persons: causal interconnection; CHAPTER 3 The indistinctness of persons: the personhood of collectivities; CHAPTER 4 Practical collective identification and dissociation; CHAPTER 5 Practical reasoning: sources and constraints; CHAPTER 6 Practical reasoning and morality; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Keith Graham examines the philosophical assumptions behind the ideas of group membership and loyalty. He offers a new understanding of the multiplicity of sources which vie for the attention of human beings as they decide how to act, and challenges the conventional division between self-interest and altruism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy. |
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Reasoning.
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Reasoning. |
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Social groups -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Social groups -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Social groups. |
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Individualism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Individualism -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Individualism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Graham, Keith, 1945- Practical reasoning in a social world. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521803780 (DLC) 2001043122 (OCoLC)47667055 |
| ISBN |
0511014295 (electronic book) |
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9780511014291 (electronic book) |
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9780511043840 (electronic book) |
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0511043848 (electronic book) |
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0511156553 |
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9780511156557 |
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1280433337 |
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9781280433337 |
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