In The Value Gap, Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen addresses the distinction between what is finally good and what is finally good-for, two value notions that are central to ethics and practical deliberation. The first part of the book argues against views that claim that one of these notions is either faulty, or at best conceptually dependent on the other notion. Whereas these two views disagree on whether it is good or good-for that is the flawed or dependent concept, it is argued, as against both approaches, that goodness and goodness-for are independent value notions that cannot be fully understood in terms of one another. The second part provides an analysis of good and good-for in terms of a fitting-attitude analysis. By elaborating a more nuanced understanding of the key elements of this analysis--reasons and pro-attitudes--Rønnow-Rasmussen challenges the widespread idea that there are no genuine practical and moral dilemmas. The result is that the gap between favouring for a reason what is good and favouring for a reason what is good for someone appears insurmountable.
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Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen explores the distinction between what is finally good and what is finally good-for: he argues that these two value notions are equally important in ethics and practical deliberation. His analysis challenges the widespread idea that there are no genuine practical and moral dilemmas.
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Part I: Elements
1: Value Taxonomy
2: Good and Good-For
3: Challenging Value Monism
4: Challenging Good Monism
5: Good-For Unitarianism
Part II: A Fitting-Attitude Analysis of Value
6: Fitting-Attitude Analysis
7: The Logical Consequence of Fitting Attitudes
8: The Fitting-Attitude Analysis Revised
9: 'Sake'
10: FA and Motivating Reasons
11: Favourings for No Reason
12: Mind the Value Gap
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This volume provides an engaging discussion of the distinction between relational and nonrelational goods, that is, being good for a subject rather than being good simpliciter.
Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen is a Professor and Acting Chair in Practical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Lund University. In 2015, he was elected member of Academia Europea. He is the author of Personal Value (OUP, 2011), and has more recently published articles on moral progress, fitting-attitude analysis, intrinsic and extrinsic value, pro- and contra-attitudes, reasons, and on the metaethical view that he calls on-conditionalism.
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Presents novel arguments against well-established positions in value theory
Argues for an improved form of the fitting-attitude analysis of value
Provides new insights about reasons, attitudes, and values
An accessible introduction to this area of debate
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ISBN
9780192848215
Publisert
2021
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Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
518 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
238
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