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[[postfree170ak33]] RICHARDS / A THEORY OF REASONS FOR ACTION ♦ £24 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ [
game theory, economic theory, Freud, Piaget, legal, A Theory Of Reasons For Action.]
published At The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971; xi + 370 pages; 15 x
22 cm; "good" blue cloth hardback in "fair" red dustwrapper w hich has
a neat horizontal crease along the top edge & is sunned on spine;
formerly the property of the City Of Liverpool Public Libraries with
their ornate armorial bookplate on the front pastedown and their
smaller classification bookplate on the rear endpaper and 'ghost' of
Dewey label on dw spine; evidence still
of librarian's use of transparent tape; a little-used reference copy
with none of the defects associated with lending copies;
"In this book, the author combines the discussion of metaethics
and substantive moral philosophy, while drawing on traditional
philosophical insights, recently elaborated techniques of
philosophical
analysis, and game and economic theory. A general theory of the
meaning
of sentences using 'reasons for action' and related terminology is
developed, which indicates how a propositional analysis of such
sentences can also illuminate their practical use and psychological
influence on our actions. The discussion covers issues of sentence
meaning and speech acts, but also includes important questions of
philosophical psychology (the nature of regret, guilt and shame), and
shows how empirical theories of moral psychology (those of Freud and
Piaget, for example) can clarify, and be clarified, philosophical
theory. The central feature of this work is its construction of a
general theory of rationality and morality, and its attempt to
formulate a structure of action guiding principles which make specific
the requirements that those concepts impose on our conduct.
Substantive questions of leg al, political, and personal morality are
discussed and an account given of social rules, rights, duties and
obligation. Finally, an answer is sought to the question 'Why be
moral?'"
crisp/clean copy of an infrequently encountered work.
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