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" Agency and the foundations of ethics : "
Paul Katsafanas
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BL
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624500
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Katsafanas, Paul
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Agency and the foundations of ethics : : Nietzschean constitutivism /\ Paul Katsafanas
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1st ed
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Oxford :: Oxford University Press,, 2013
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xi, 267 p. ;; 25 cm
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9780199645077
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: 0199645078
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-264) and index
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| Contents
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1. Three challenges for ethical theory -- 2. Normativity as inescapability -- 3. Constitutivism and self-knowledge -- 4. Constitutivism and self-constitution -- 5. Action's first constitutive aim: agential activity -- 6. Action's second constitutive aim: power -- 7. The structure of Nietzschean constitutivism -- 8. The normative results generated by Nietzschean constitutivism -- 9. Activity, power, and the foundations of ethics
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Paul Katsafanas explores how we can justify normative claims such as 'murder is wrong'. He defends an original account of constitutivism - the view that we do so by showing that agents become committed to them in virtue of acting - and resolves philosophical puzzles about the metaphysics, epistemology, and practical grip of normative claims
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,1844-1900-- Criticism and interpretation
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Ethics
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Agent (Philosophy)
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B3318.E9K38 2013
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Nietzschean constitutivism
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