Research Catalog

Title

Reason and morality / Alan Gewirth.

Author

Gewirth, Alan

Publication

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1978.

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Additional Authors

Rawls, John, 1921-2002

Description

xii, 393 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

Ethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The problem of justification : Central questions of moral philosophy ; Is it needless to justify a supreme moral principle? ; Is it impossible to justify a supreme moral principle? ; Can a supreme moral principle be justified inductively? ; Reason and the generic features of action ; The dialectically necessary method -- 2. The normative structure of action : Purposiveness and goods ; Generic rights and right-claims ; The criterion of relevant similarities -- 3. The principle of generic consistency : The derivation of the principle ; The formal necessity of the principle ; The material necessity of the principle ; Analytic truth and morality ; Motivation and rationality -- 4. Direct applications of the principle : Kinds of applications and principles ; Equality of generic rights ; Common good and duties regarding basic goods ; The duty to rescue ; Duties regarding nonsubtractive goods ; Duties regarding additive goods ; Duties regarding freedom -- 5. Indirect applications of the principle : Social rules and institutions ; Optional-procedural justification of social rules: voluntary associations ; Static-instrumental justification of social rules: the minimal state ; Necessary-procedural justification of social rules: the method of consent ; Dynamic-instrumental justification of social rules: the supportive state ; The completeness of the principle ; Conflicts of duties ; Some concluding reflections.

ISBN

0226288757

LCCN

^^^77013911^

OCLC

3327869

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Harvard Library