The Possibility of AltruismJust as there are rational requirements on thought, there are rational requirements on action. This book defends a conception of ethics, and a related conception of human nature, according to which altruism is included among the basic rational requirements on desire and action. |
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Contents
The Foundation of Morals | 3 |
The Traditional Controversy | 7 |
The Solution | 13 |
Necessity and Interpretation | 18 |
SUBJECTIVE REASONS AND PRUDENCE | 25 |
Desires | 27 |
Prudent Motives and the Present | 33 |
Reasons | 47 |
OBJECTIVE REASONS AND ALTRUISM | 77 |
Altruism The Intuitive Issue | 79 |
Objective Reasons | 90 |
Solipsism Dissociation and the Impersonal Standpoint | 99 |
The Interpretation of Objective Reasons | 116 |
The Consequences | 125 |
Conclusion | 143 |
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| Title | The Possibility of Altruism Princeton paperbacks |
| Author | Thomas Nagel |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0691020027, 9780691020020 |
| Length | 148 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Sociology of Religion |
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