Life and Action : Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought / Michael Thompson.
Thompson, Michael, author.
2012
BJ37 .T49 2008
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Title Life and Action : Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought / Michael Thompson.
Author Thompson, Michael, author.
ISBN 9780674033962
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033962
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (240 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674033962 doi
Call Number BJ37 .T49 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 191
Summary Any sound practical philosophy must be clear on practical concepts-concepts, in particular, of life, action, and practice. This clarity is Michael Thompson's aim in his ambitious work. In Thompson's view, failure to comprehend the structures of thought and judgment expressed in these concepts has disfigured modern moral philosophy, rendering it incapable of addressing the larger questions that should be its focus.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE. The Representation of Life
1. Introductory
2. Can Life Be Given a Real Definition?
3. The Representation of the Living Individual
4. The Representation of the Life-Form Itself
PART TWO. Naive Action Theory
5. Introductory
6. Types of Practical Explanation
7. Naive Explanation of Action
8. Action and Time
PART THREE. Practical Generality
9. Two Tendencies in Practical Philosophy
10. Practices and Dispositions as Sources of the Goodness of Individual Actions
11. Practice and Disposition as Sources of Individual Action
Acknowledgments
Index

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