Paul Katsafanas

Agency and the Foundations of Ethics: Nietzschean Constitutivism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780199645077
• ISBN-10: 0199645078
• Artikelnr.: 36542212

Autorenporträt

Paul Katsafanas is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He works in ethics, action theory, and nineteenth-century philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
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
Appendix: Is Nietzsche Really a Constitutivist?
References