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02805aam a2200373 i 4500 001 E21D7284939111E7A673E95E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20170907010029 008 160822s2017 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016036520 020 $a 1350004588 (hb) 020 $a 9781350004580 (hb) 020 $a 1350004596 020 $a 9781350004597 035 $a (OCoLC)957705136 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d CHVBK $d OBE $d FIE $d WAU $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a BJ1031 C63 2017 100 1 $a Coakley, Mathew, $e author. 245 10 $a Motivation ethics / $c Mathew Coakley. 264 1 $a London ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, $c 2017. 300 $a 258 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256) and index. 505 0 $a Consequentialism and the moral agent question -- Motivation ethics -- Deontology and the moral agent question -- Moral demandingness and two concepts of evaluation -- The problem of special relationships -- Global duties and the state -- Political legitimacy and the good -- Interpersonal comparisons of the good -- On the scope of reason. 520 $a This is a book about a particular moral theory--motivation ethics--and why we should accept it. But it is also a book about moral theorizing, about how we might compare different structures of moral theory. In principle we might morally evaluate a range of objects: we might, for example, evaluate what people do--is some action right, wrong, permitted, forbidden, a duty or beyond what is required? Or we might evaluate agents: what is it to be morally heroic, or morally depraved, or highly moral? And, we could evaluate institutions: which ones are just, or morally better, or legitimate? Most theories focus on one (or two) of these and offer arguments against rivals. What this book does is to step back and ask a different question: of the theories that evaluate one object, are they compatible with an acceptable account of the evaluation of the other objects? So, for instance, if a moral theory tells us which actions are right and wrong, can it then be compatible with a theory of what it is to be a morally good or bad or heroic or depraved agent (or deny the need for this)? It seems that this would be an easy task, but the book sets out how this is very difficult for some of our most prominent theories, why this is so, and why a theory based on motivations might be the right answer. -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Ethics. 650 0 $a Motivation (Psychology) 650 0 $a Moral motivation. 650 0 $a Consequentialism (Ethics) 650 0 $a Duty. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170907010623.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E21D7284939111E7A673E95E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search