Rudiger Bittner (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Bielefeld

Good Things to Do

Practical Reason Without Obligation

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Produktbeschreibung

Rüdiger Bittner argues that the aim of thinking about what to do, of practical reason, is to find, not what we ought to do, but what it is good to do under the circumstances. Neither under prudence nor under morality are there things we ought to do. There is no warrant for the idea of our being required, by natural law or by our rationality, to do either what helps us attain our ends or what is right for moral reasons. While common moral understanding is committed to there being things we ought to do and to our being guilty and deserving blame if we fail to do them, we can lay aside these notions without loss, indeed with benefit.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 146mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780197681084
• ISBN-10: 0197681085
• Artikelnr.: 67778729

Autorenporträt

Rüdiger Bittner taught philosophy in Heidelberg between 1973 and 1979 and, after two years as a dramaturg in the theatre of Basel, he was a lecturer in the philosophy department at Princeton. He became professor of philosophy at Hildesheim (1987-88) and at Yale (1989-91), and finally at Bielefeld before retiring in 2012. The Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie awarded him its Gottlob Frege-Prize in 2012.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part A: What we ought to do
I: Practical reason and what we ought to do
II: Prudence and what we ought to do
III: Morality and what we ought to do
Part B. Good things to do
I: Practical reason is about good things for somebody to do
II: Reasons in favour
III: Objections
IV: How to find out what are good things for one to do
Conclusion