Morality and Self-Interest
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 December 2007
- ISBN 9780195305852
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 233x164x18 mm
- Weight 481 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The relationship between morality and self-interest is a perennial one in philosophy. For Plato, Hobbes, Kant, Aristotle, Hume, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche, it lay at the heart of moral theory. But little of the contemporary work has been published in book format. Bloomfield's edited volume will be the first such book devoted to morality and self-interest, presenting new, commissioned articles on this subject by some of the top philosophers working today.
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The relationship between morality and self-interest is a perennial one in philosophy, at the center of moral theory. It goes back to Plato's Republic, which debated whether living morally was in a person's best interest or simply for dupes. Hobbes also claimed that morality was not in the best interests of the individual; Kant, however, thought that morality ought to be followed anyway even if it was not in a person's interest. Aristotle, Hume, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche all had much to say on the subject, and contemporary philosophers like Thomas Nagel and David Gauthier discuss it a good deal as well. Little of the contemporary work has been published in book format however. Bloomfield's edited volume is the first such book truly devoted to this important topic, presenting brand new, commissioned articles on this subject by some of the top philosophers working today.
Bloomfield provides an introduction to the topic and its place in philosophical history in his introduction. The volume will then be divided into three sections. The first will lay out the two sides of the debate; the second will cover views on morality as external to the self and thus not in our self-interest; and the third will focus on morality as intrinsic to the self and thus in our self-interest. Contributions includes newly published work by 13 top-notch philosophers, among them Thomas Nagel, Julia Annas, Samuel Scheffler, David Schmidtz, and Terence Irwin, as well as a previously published piece by W. D. Falk. The volume will act as a useful collection of scholarship by top figures, and as a resource and course book on an important topic.
informed scholarship and rich analyses of important issues ... Bloomfield is to be commended for putting together a fine collection.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Trouble with Justice
Neitzche on Selfishness, Justice, and the Duties of Higher Men
Morality, Schmorality
Because It's Right
The Value of Inviolability
Potential Congruence
Too Much Morality
Scotus and the Possibility of Moral Motivation
Butler on Virtue, Self Interest, and Human Nature
Virtue Ethics and the Charge of Egoism
Morality, Self, and Others
Why It's Bad to be Bad
Classical and Sour Forms of Virtue
Shame and Guilt: Self Interest and Morality
Biblography
