1st Edition

Rationality and Moral Theory How Intimacy Generates Reasons

By Diane Jeske Copyright 2008
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides answers to both normative and metaethical questions in a way that shows the interconnection of both types of questions, and also shows how a complete theory of reasons can be developed by moving back and forth between the two types of questions. It offers an account of the nature of intimate relationships and of the nature of the reasons that intimacy provides, and then... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Agents and Their ReasonsSituating the Project

How Not to Understand Reasons of Intimacy

Friends and Other RelationsIntimacy, Fidelity, and Commitments

Friendship and Particularism

Deontological Constraints and Dispute ResolutionThe Scope of the Objective Agent-Relative

Biography

Diane Jeske received her PhD from MIT, and is now an associate professor of philosophy at The University of Iowa. She has published extensively on special obligations to intimates and is co-editor, with Richard Fumerton, of Philosophy Through Film.

"The book is clearly argued and attractively written, giving most of its arguments by way of clever, striking examples... it is a strong, accessible, original contribution to the debate about the ethics of partiality, and it merits a great deal of attention." -- Simon Keller, University of Melbourne, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews