Print Price: $47.95

Format:
Hardback
192 pp.
138 mm x 216 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199290338

Publication date:
August 2006

Imprint: OUP UK

Reasons and the Good

Roger Crisp

In Reasons and the Good Roger Crisp answers some of the oldest questions in moral philosophy. Claiming that a fundamental issue in normative ethics is what ultimate reasons for action we might have, he argues that the best statements of such reasons will not employ moral concepts. He investigates and explains the nature of reasons themselves; his account of how we come to know them combines an intuitionist epistemology with elements of Pyrrhonist scepticism. He defends a hedonistic theory of well-being and an account of practical reason according to which we can give some, though not overriding, priority to our own good over that of others. The book develops original lines of argument within a framework of some traditional but currently less popular views.

Readership : Scholars and students of moral philosophy