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Rationality and moral theory: how intimacy generates reasons
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Rationality and moral theory: how intimacy generates reasons

Diane Jeske
Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory, 13, Routledge
2008
DOI: 10.4324/9780203892886

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This book provides answers to both normative and metaethical questions in a way that shows the interconnection of both types of questions, and also shows how a complete theory of reasons can be developed by moving back and forth between the two types of questions. It offers an account of the nature of intimate relationships and of the nature of the reasons that intimacy provides, and then uses that account to defend a traditional intuitionist metaethics. The book thus combines attention to the details of the lived moral life – the context in which many of our most pressing moral questions arise, how we deliberate and make moral decisions, the complexities that plague our attempts to know what we ought to do – with theoretical rigor in offering an account of the nature of reasons, how we come to have moral knowledge, and how we can adjudicate between competing positions. Diane Jeske received her PhD from MIT, and is now an associate professor of philosophy at The University of Iowa. She has published extensively on special obligations to intimates and is co-editor, with Richard Fumerton, of Philosophy Through Film. Acknowledgments Introduction: Agents and Their ReasonsSituating the Project How Not to Understand Reasons of Intimacy Friends and Other RelationsIntimacy, Fidelity, and Commitments Friendship and Particularism Deontological Constraints and Dispute ResolutionThe Scope of the Objective Agent-Relative
 Ethics Justification (Theory of knowledge) Rationalism Intimacy (Psychology) Reason Philosophy of Human Nature Ethics Philosophy Moral Theory

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