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Self-governance and Cooperation

by Robert H. Myers

  • Hardback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

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For philosophers and students of moral theory

Offers a balanced approach to complex moral questions

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This groundbreaking book explores a new moral theory that balances cooperation and self-governance.

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Robert Myers presents an original moral theory which charts a course between the extremes of consequentialism and contractualism. He puts forward a radically new case for the existence of both agent-neutral and agent-relative values, and gives an innovative answer to the question how such disparate values can be weighed against each other. Practical judgement is shown to be guided in this by two very different ideals: an ideal of cooperation, which is held to shape the content of morality's demands, and one of self-governance, which is held to determine the nature of reason's requirements. Examination of the ideal of cooperation reveals that principles of impartial beneficence and rights protecting individual freedoms are equally fundamental to morality. Examination of the ideal of self-governance reveals that morality's dictates, though not necessarily overriding, are always in an important sense inescapable. The result is a theory of morality which combines a balanced account of its content with a ringing affirmation of its authority.
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  • Author

    Robert H. Myers

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    September 1999

  • Weight

    391g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780198238393

  • ISBN-10

    0198238398

  • Eden Code

    4562811

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