Reasons Without Rationalism

by Kieran Setiya

Book Overview

Modern philosophy has been vexed by the question "Why should I be moral?" and by doubts about the rational authority of moral virtue. In Reasons without Rationalism, Kieran Setiya shows that these doubts rest on a mistake. The "should" of practical reason cannot be understood apart from the virtues of character, including such moral virtues as justice and benevolence, and the considerations to which the virtues make one sensitive thereby...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691146527
• ISBN13: 9780691146522
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"