Agency and the foundations of ethics : Nietzschean constitutivism /
Paul Katsafanas explores how we can justify normative claims such as 'murder is wrong'. He defends an original account of constitutivism - the view that we do so by showing that agents become committed to them in virtue of acting - and resolves philosophical puzzles about the metaphysics,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Paul Katsafanas explores how we can justify normative claims such as 'murder is wrong'. He defends an original account of constitutivism - the view that we do so by showing that agents become committed to them in virtue of acting - and resolves philosophical puzzles about the metaphysics, epistemology, and practical grip of normative claims. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191654794 0191654795 9780199645077 0199645078 9781299261686 129926168X 9780191751912 019175191X |