Life and action
Subtitle: elementary structures of practice and practical thought
By: Michael Thompson.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674016705
Subjects: Ethics.; Conduct of life.; Life.; Agent (Philosophy); Act (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The representation of life; title: Can life be given a real definition?; title: The representation of the living individual; title: The representation of the life form itself; title: Part II: Naive action theory; title: Types of practical explanation; title: Naive explanation of action; title: Action and time; title: Part III: Practical generality; title: Two tendencies in practical philosophy; title: Practices and dispositions as sources of the goodness of individual actions; title: Practice and disposition as sources of individual actions themselves.