Natural Law and Practical Rationality

Name: Natural Law and Practical Rationality
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ISBN: 9780521039772

ISBN-10: 0521039770

ISBN-13: 9780521039772

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Authors: Mark C. Murphy

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Natural law theory has recently been undergoing a revival, especially in political philosophy and jurisprudence. Yet, most fundamentally, natural law theory is not a political theory, but a moral theory, or more accurately a theory of practical rationality. According to the natural law account of practical rationality, the basic reasons for actions are basic goods that are grounded in the nature of human beings. Practical rationality aims to identify and characterize reasons for action and to explain how choice between actions worth performing can be appropriately governed by rational standards. These standards are justified by reference to features of the human goods that are the…

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List price: $63.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction: natural law and the theory of practical rationality



The real identity thesis



Well-being



The reasons that make action intelligible



Welfarism and its discontents



The principles that make choice reasonable



What ought to be done


Note


Works cited


Index