Agent Centered Morality An Aristotelian Alternative to Kantian Internalism by George W. Harris 9780520922228 0520922220

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• ISBN 10: 0520922220
• ISBN 13: 9780520922228
• Author: George W. Harris

What kinds of persons do we aspire to be, and how do our aspirations fit with our ideas of rationality? In Agent-Centered Morality, George Harris argues that most of us aspire to a certain sort of integrity: We wish to be respectful of and sympathetic to others, and to be loving parents, friends, and members of our communities. Against a prevailing Kantian consensus, Harris offers an Aristotelian view of the problems presented by practical reason, problems of integrating all our concerns into a coherent, meaningful life in a way that preserves our integrity. The task of solving these problems is “the integration test.”

Systematically addressing the work of major Kantian thinkers, Harris shows that even the most advanced contemporary versions of the Kantian view fail to integrate all of the values that correspond to what we call a moral life. By demonstrating how the meaning of life and practical reason are internally related, he constructs from Aristotle’s thought a conceptual scheme that successfully integrates all the characteristics that make a life meaningful, without jeopardizing the place of any. Harris’s elucidation of this approach is a major contribution to debates on human agency, practical reason, and morality.

Table contents:

Part 1 BEGINNINGS
1. The Internalism Requirement and the Integration Test
2. Impartiality, Regulative Norms, and Practical Reason
3. The Thin Conception of Integrity and the Integration Test
4. An Integrity-Sensitive Conception of Human Agency, Practical Reason, and Morality
Part 2 THE GOODS OF RESPECT
5. General Features and Varieties of Respect
6. Respect, Egoism, and Self-Assessment
7. The Categorical Value of the Goods of Respect
Part 3 THE GOODS OF LOVE
8. General Features of Love
9. The Normative Thoughts of Parental Love, Part I Self-Restricting Normative Beliefs
10. The Normative Thoughts of Parental Love, Part II Other-restricting Normative Beliefs
11. Peer Love
12. The Normative Thoughts of Friendship
13. The Normative Thoughts of Neighborly Love, Part I Autonomy and Subservience
14. The Normative Thoughts of Neighborly Love, Part II Autonomy of Conscience and the Unjust Community
15. Loneliness, Intimacy, and the Integration Test
Part 4 THE GOODS OF ACTIVITY The Place of the Aesthetic in Practical Reason
16. Solitary Activities
17. Shared Activities
18. Normative Thoughts and the Goods of Activity

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