Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity

by Christine M. Korsgaard

Book Overview

Christine M. Korsgaard presents an account of the foundation of practical reason and moral obligation. Moral philosophy aspires to understand the fact that human actions, unlike the actions of the other animals, can be morally good or bad, right or wrong. Few moral philosophers, however, have exploited the idea that actions might be morally good or bad in virtue of being good or bad of their kind - good or bad as actions. Just as we need to know that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199552800
• ISBN13: 9780199552801
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"