The Dialectical Necessity of Morality
Subtitle: An Analysis and Defense of Alan Gewirth's Argument to the Principle of Generic Consistency
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 1, 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9780226044828
First sentence: In Reason and Morality (Gewirth 1978a), Alan Gewirth argues that purposive agents and prospective purposive agents (PPAs) are rationally committed, by virtue of conceiving of themselves as PPAs, to assenting to a moral principle, "the principle of generic consistency" (PGC), which states that all PPAs have claim (or "strong") rights to their freedom and well-being.