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Reasons in Action

A Reductionist Account of Intentional Action

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Reasons in Action

A Reductionist Account of Intentional Action

By: Ingmar Persson

Ingmar Persson offers an original view of the processes of human action: deliberating on the basis of reasons for and against actions, making a decision about what to do, and from there implementing the decision in action in a way that makes the action intentional. Persson's analysis is mainly developed to suit physical actions, though how it needs to be modified to cover mental acts is also discussed. The interpretation of intentional action that is presented is reductionist in the sense that it does not appeal to any concepts that are distinctive of the domain of action theory, such as a unique type of agent-causation, or irreducible mental acts, like acts of will, volitions, decisions, or tryings. Nor does it appeal to any unanalyzed attitudes or states essentially related to intentional action, like intentions and desires to act. Instead, the intentionality of actions is construed as springing from desires conceived as physical states of agents which cause facts because of the way agents think of them. A sense of our having responsibility that is sufficient for our acting for reasons is also sketched out.

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0198845030

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From Morality to the End of Reason

An Essay on Rights, Reasons, and Responsibility

By: Ingmar Persson

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From Morality to the End of Reason

An Essay on Rights, Reasons, and Responsibility

By: Ingmar Persson

Ingmar Persson presents a new analysis of common sense morality—in particular the act-omission doctrine and the doctrine of double effect. He traces both doctrines to a theory of rights and a conception of responsibility as based on causation, and provides an original account of what it is to have a reason for action.

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0199676550

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The Retreat of Reason

A Dilemma in the Philosophy of Life

By: Ingmar Persson

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The Retreat of Reason

A Dilemma in the Philosophy of Life

By: Ingmar Persson

One of the main original aims of philosophy was to give us guidance about how to live our lives. The ancient Greeks typically assumed that a life led in accordance with reason, a rational life, would also be the happiest or most fulfilling. Ingmar Persson's book resumes this project, which has been largely neglected in contemporary philosophy. But his conclusions are very different; by exploring the irrationality of our attitudes to time, our identity, and our responsibility,Persson shows that the aim of living rationally conflicts not only with the aim of leading the most fulfilling life, but also with the moral aim of promoting the maximization and just distribution of fulfilment for all. Persson also argues that neither the aim of living rationally nor any of the fulfilmentaims can be rejected as less rational than any other. We thus face a dilemma of either having to enter a retreat of reason, insulated from everyday attitudes, or making reason retreat from its aspiration to be the sole controller of our attitudes.The Retreat of Reason explores three areas in which there is a conflict between the rational life and a life dedicated to maximization of fulfilment. Persson contends that living rationally requires us to give up, first, our temporal biases; secondly, our bias towards ourselves; and, thirdly, our responsibility to the extent that it involves the notion of desert and desert-entailing notions. But giving up these attitudes is so overwhelmingly hard that the effort to do so not only makesour own lives less fulfilling, but also obstructs our efficient pursuit of the moral aim of promoting a maximum of justly distributed fulfilment.Ingmar Persson brings back to philosophy the ambition of offering a broad vision of the human condition. The Retreat of Reason challenges and disturbs some of our most fundamental ideas about ourselves.

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0199276900

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Morality from Compassion

By: Ingmar Persson

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Morality from Compassion

By: Ingmar Persson

According to Arthur Schopenhauer, compassion is the basis of morality. He sees concern for justice as a negative form of compassion, directed at not harming anyone, as opposed to the more far-reaching, positive form of benefiting. He thinks a higher degree of compassion involves realizing that the spatio-temporal separation of individuals is illusory and that in reality they are all identical. Such compassion is impartial and all-encompassing. Compassion is suited to be the centre of morality because its object are negative feelings, and only these are real. Contrary to these Schopenhauerian claims, it is here argued that compassion must be supplemented with attitudes like sympathy and benevolence because positive feelings exist alongside negative feelings; that a concern for justice, though morally essential, is independent of these attitudes which are based on empathy; that these attitudes involve not identifying oneself with others, but taking personal identity as insignificant in empathically imagining how others feel. Schopenhauer is however right that, though these attitudes are spontaneously partial, this can be corrected. His morality is also interesting in raising the question rarely discussed in philosophical ethics of how moral virtue relates to ascetic self-renunciation. Both of these ideals are highly demanding, but the book ends by arguing that this is no objection to their validity.

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0192845535

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Inclusive Ethics

Extending Beneficence and Egalitarian Justice

By: Ingmar Persson

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Inclusive Ethics

Extending Beneficence and Egalitarian Justice

By: Ingmar Persson

Inclusive Ethics brings together two ideas which are part of our everyday morality, namely that we have a moral reason to benefit or do good to other beings, and that justice requires these benefits to be distributed equally. Ingmar Persson explores the difficulties of accepting a morality which combines both of these principles.

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0198792174

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From Morality to the End of Reason

An Essay on Rights, Reasons, and Responsibility

By: Ingmar Persson

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From Morality to the End of Reason

An Essay on Rights, Reasons, and Responsibility

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Many philosophers think that if you're morally responsible for a state of affairs, you must be a cause of it. Ingmar Persson argues that this strand of common sense morality is asymmetrical, in that it features the act-omission doctrine, according to which there are stronger reasons against performing some harmful actions than in favour of performing any beneficial actions. He analyses the act-omission doctrine as consisting in a theory of negative rights, according to which there are rights not to have one's life, body, and property interfered with, and a conception of responsibility as being based on causality. This conception of responsibility is also found to be involved in the doctrine of double effect. The outcome of Persson's critical examination of these ideas is that reasons of rights are replaced by reasons of beneficence, and we are made responsible for what is under the influence of our practical reasons. The argument gives rise to a symmetrical, consequentialist morality which is more demanding but less authoritative than common sense morality, because reasons of beneficence are weaker than reasons of rights. It is also argued that there are no non-naturalist external practical reasons, and all practical reasons are desire-dependent: so practical reasons cannot be universally binding. The question is whether such a morality possesses enough authority to command our compliance. This seems necessary in order for us to cope with the greatest moral problems of our time, such as aid to developing countries and anthropogenic climate change.

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0191664243

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Morality from Compassion

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Morality from Compassion

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Inclusive Ethics

Extending Beneficence and Egalitarian Justice

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Extending Beneficence and Egalitarian Justice

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Inclusive Ethics begins from two ideas which are part of our everyday morality, namely that we have a moral reason to benefit or do good to other beings, and that justice requires these benefits to be distributed equally. A morality comprising these two general principles will be exceedingly hard to apply as these principles will have to be balanced against each in an intuitive fashion, but also because the notion of what benefits beings is quite complex, comprising both experiential components of pleasure and successful exercises of autonomy. Ingmar Persson argues that, on philosophical reflection, these ideas turn out to be more far-reaching than we imagine. In particular, the reason to benefit commits us to benefit beings by bringing them into existence. Further, since grounds that are commonly used to justify that some are better off than others - such as their being more deserving or having rights to more - are untenable, justice requires a more extensive equality. The book concludes by reflecting on the problems of getting people to accept a morality which differs markedly from the morality with which they have grown up.

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0192510614

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Reasons in Action

A Reductionist Account of Intentional Action

By: Ingmar Persson

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A Reductionist Account of Intentional Action

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The Retreat of Reason

A Dilemma in the Philosophy of Life

By: Ingmar Persson

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A Dilemma in the Philosophy of Life

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Ingmar Bergman

Interviews

By: Ingmar Bergman

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Interviews

By: Ingmar Bergman

Interviews with the famed director of Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage, The Seventh Seal, Saraband, and other films

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578062187

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Welfare State Change in Leading OECD Countries

The Influence of Post-Industrial and Global Economic Developments

By: Ingmar Schustereder

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Welfare State Change in Leading OECD Countries

The Influence of Post-Industrial and Global Economic Developments

By: Ingmar Schustereder

Ingmar J. Schustereder investigates the relative influence of economic globalization and post industrial developments as drivers behind recent welfare state change and examines to what extent different national systems of social protection have preserved their core institutional features over time.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3834986224

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Unfit for the Future

The Need for Moral Enhancement

By: Ingmar Persson,Julian Savulescu

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Unfit for the Future

The Need for Moral Enhancement

By: Ingmar Persson,Julian Savulescu

Introduction -- Human nature and common-sense morality -- Liberal democracy -- Catastrophic misuses of science -- Responsibility for omissions -- the Tragedy of the commons -- the Tragedy of the environment and liberal democracy -- Authoritarianism and democracy -- Moral enhancement as a possible way out.

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Enfants du dimanche

By: Ingmar Bergman

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Enfants du dimanche

By: Ingmar Bergman

Selon une vieille croyance suédoise, celui qui naît un dimanche a le don de "seconde vue". Il voit les choses secrètes et les revenants ; il découvre les objets cachés et perce les mystères ; ses rêves, déjà, lui font connaître l'avenir : c'est un voyant. Est-il meilleur augure pour un futur grand cinéaste ? Mais d'autres aussi naissent un dimanche, le père de Poupie par exemple - Ingmar Bergman lui-même ici âgé de huit ans -, ce père pasteur, à la fois craint et détesté. Loin de les rapprocher, le don de "seconde vue", en faisant naître la foi chez le père et une vocation de cinéaste chez le fils, les sépare, et ce n'est qu'à la fin de la vie du pasteur que ces deux "enfants du dimanche" se réconcilieront. Ingmar Bergman reprend ici un bref épisode de ses Mémoires, Laterna magica, et le développe en un récit destiné à être tourné par son fils.

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2070735818

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Book's by Ingmar Persson

Reasons in Action

Reasons in Action

From Morality to the End of Reason

From Morality to the End of Reason

The Retreat of Reason

The Retreat of Reason

Morality from Compassion

Morality from Compassion

Inclusive Ethics

Inclusive Ethics

From Morality to the End of Reason

From Morality to the End of Reason

Morality from Compassion

Morality from Compassion

Inclusive Ethics

Inclusive Ethics

Reasons in Action

Reasons in Action

The Retreat of Reason

The Retreat of Reason

Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

Welfare State Change in Leading OECD Countries

Welfare State Change in Leading OECD Countries

Unfit for the Future

Unfit for the Future

Enfants du dimanche

Enfants du dimanche

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