Reasonably Vicious
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: December 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780674007413
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy; Epistemology; Philosophy / Epistemology; Ethics; Practical reason
Description: "Is unethical conduct necessarily irrational? Answering this question requires giving an account of practical reason, of practical good, and of the source or point of wrongdoing. By the time most contemporary philosophers have done the first two, they have lost sight of the third, chalking up bad action to rashness, weakness of will, or ignorance. In this book, Candace Vogler does all three, taking as her guides scholars who contemplated why some people perform evil deeds.

In doing so, she sets out to at once engage and redirect contemporary debates about ethics, practical reason, and normativity."--BOOK JACKET.