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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Bernard Williams."”.
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Bernard Williams on Coercion and Reasons for Action
… what shared ground ethical theory can offer. Bernard Williams’ treatment of reasons for action informs much of the contemporary discussion. Williams argues that there are generally two classes of statements about reasons: internal and external. An internal reason, according to Williams, is a …
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Bernard Williams on Coercion and Reasons for Action
… what shared ground ethical theory can offer. Bernard Williams’ treatment of reasons for action informs much of the contemporary discussion. Williams argues that there are generally two classes of statements about reasons: internal and external. An internal reason, according to Williams, is a …
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Impartialist Ethics and Psychic Disintegration: A Talking Cure
… psyche. Its primary interlocutor is Professor Bernard Williams, and its point of departure is my interpretation of his Objection from Integrity to impartialist moral theories. Against Williams, I hope to show that the active adherent of impartialist ethical systems (e.g., act utilitarianism) …
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The Ethics of Care of the Self as Resistance to a “Peculiar Institution”
… posed by Elizabeth Anscombe, Michael Stocker, Bernard Williams, and Susan Wolf. It focuses on Stocker’s challenge that when subjects try to act on such theories they become self-effacing in that they create a divide between one’s reasons and one’s motives. This study argues that in consequence …
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Attending to others: ethics, love and the individual
… the works of David Gauthier, Charles Fried and Bernard Williams. In Part II I turn to the study of affection and of love for an alternative account of the attention we should offer others, and the place of such an attention within a good life. I first consider two theological studies of the …
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Death and Value Reignition: Lucky in the Chance to Die
… deleterious effect on the scholarship. I examine Bernard Williams' claim that extended lifespans are destined to crash into permanent boredom and find that while this crash is probably inevitable, recovery is always possible in finite lifespans. I do, however, think that a eudaimonic life requires …
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Williams, Scanlon, and the Normativity of Morality
… on us. Not everyone grants this premise. Indeed, Bernard Williams’ work presents a denial of the claim that moral theory has the normative authority to demand anything of us at all. This familiar inversion of the claim that morality is overly demanding is a serious objection to the task of working …
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Ethical Ideals, Nonrational Forces: Melville's Critique of Morality
… MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams have brought to the interpretation of narrative, I attempt to draw out the ethical arguments of Melville's Pierre (1852), ""Benito Cereno"" (1855), and Billy Budd, Sailor (1891; pub. 1924). As my readings suggest, these three …
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Legitimacy as design: Towards a realist theory of crisis in consolidated democracies
… of how citizens judge the state. I build on Bernard Williams’ Basic Legitimation Demand (BLD), examining its Hobbesian foundations and extending it using insights from cognitive and social psychology. I argue that states and citizens are boundedly rational actors engaged in mutual processes …
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Truth, objectivity and subjectivity in accounting
… in terms of the dichotomy the philosopher Bernard Williams draws between science and ethics. We find that the descriptive and normative are inextricably entangled in accounting concepts in much the same way as they are entangled in thick ethical concepts such as 'chastity' or 'courage'. We …
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Like the green bay tree : the necessity of virtue for happiness.
… are no longer available to us today. Bernard Williams and Alasdair MacIntyre, on the other hand, provide a complex account of ethics that allows us to respond to the serious challenges our central thesis still faces, most notably cultural relativism and the apparent counterexamples …
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Living in the Shadow of Death A Philosophical Study of the Evil of Annihilation
… better to be immortal. Many philosophers follow Bernard Williams’ lead in arguing that we face a dilemma with respect to the desirability of immortality; that an immortal life would either fail to be attractive or fail to involve a preservation of one’s personal identity. In response, I argue …
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Perfectionist Republicanism: Liberty, Flourishing, Excellence
… liberals, such as that of Judith Shklar and Bernard Williams, who argue that the humane accomplishments of modern politics are fragile cultural achievements that could be lost, and hence should not be taken for granted. On the other hand, there are arguably liberalism’s most insightful …
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Prescriptions and universalizability: a defence of Harean ethical theory
… especially against the objections of Bernard Williams. It is also argued that various difficulties for utilitarianism – utility monsters, interpersonal comparison, Korsgaard’s objections – can be met by a form of utilitarianism like Hare’s, which is Kantian, and thus that such a form …
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Nietzsche on value creation
… that Nietzsche offers an intriguing twist on Bernard Williams’ conception of ethical confidence; creating values creates the normative concepts that provide the basis for meaningful action.
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An Intellectual History of Roger Scruton's Thought
… likes of G. E. M. Anscombe, Stuart Hampshire, or Bernard Williams. The second context, that of the ‘Peterhouse Right’, illuminates the distinctiveness of Scruton’s wielding of this virtue ethicist use of Wittgenstein into a political thought concerned with stores of practical reason. In other …
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Can You Believe It? A Case for Meaningful Control of Belief
… a form of at-will control brought to the fore by Bernard Williams. On this conception, one acts at-will when the action performed is basic or immediate in the sense of having no intermediate steps, i.e. voluntarily winking, smiling or raising one’s arm (the most frequently used example). The other …
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Transfigured partiality : toward a positive account of Kierkegaardian special loves.
This dissertation provides a Kierkegaard-inspired framework for a characteristically "neighborly" understanding of special loves—that is, of special loves thoroughly integrated with, and thus transformed by, neighbor-love, or the agape of the New Testament. When spelled out, I claim, Kierkegaard's …