Dimensions of practical necessity : "here I stand, I can do no other" /: "here I stand, I can do no other". ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Katharina Bauer, Somogy Varga, Corinna Mieth, editors.
• Editors: Bauer, Katharina, 1982-; Varga, Somogy, 1974-; Mieth, Corinna
• Contents: Dimensions of practical necessity : an introduction / Katharina Bauer, Somogy Varga and Corinna Mieth -- Part I. Examples : the necessity of love and the unforgivable. Loving eyes of my own : love particularity, and necessity / Marya Schechtman. "I cannot forgive you" : the unforgivable as an example of practical necessity / Oliver Hallich -- Part II. Normative claims : personal practical necessity and practical identities. Christine Korsgaard and the normativit of practical identities / Christoph Bambauer. What if I cannot do what I have to do? : notions of personal practical necessity and the principle "ought implies can" / Michael Kühler -- Part III. Normative challenges : Vice and akrasia. Vice, practical necessity, and agential self-destruction / Jonathan Jacobs. Three ways to understand practical necessity and akrasia : Aristotle, Davidson, and Frankfurt / Kathi Beier. Here I stand, I could do no other : can a person of integrity be weak-willed / Arnd Pollmann -- Part IV, Volitional and psychological challenges : ambiguity, psychopathy, and shame. Where? Me? : indeterminancy and ambiguity in human motivation. Shame and necessity redux / Heidi L. Maibom -- Part V. Concluding evaluations. Here I stand : about the weight of personal practical necessity / Katharina Bauer. Morality and happiness : two precarious situations? / Corinna Mieth.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 257 pages .)
• Subjects: 100; Act (Philosophy); Necessity (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY -- Essays; PHILOSOPHY -- Reference; Act (Philosophy); Necessity (Philosophy); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319523989; 3319523988
• Related ISBNs: 331952397X; 9783319523972
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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