Unprincipled Virtue An Inquiry Into Moral Agency

by Arpaly, Nomy

• ISBN13: 9780195179767
• ISBN10: 0195179765
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Nomy Arpaly rejects the model of rationality used by most ethicists and action theorists. Both observation and psychology indicate that people act rationally without deliberation, and act irrationally with deliberation. By questioning the notion that our own minds are comprehensible to us--and therefore questioning much of the current work of action theorists and ethicists--Arpaly attempts to develop a more realistic conception of moral agency.

Table of Contents

1 The Complexity of Moral Psychology	3	(30)
2 On Acting Rationally against One's Best Judgment	33	(34)
3 Moral Worth	67	(50)
4 Varieties of Autonomy	117	(32)
5 Blame, Autonomy, and Problem Cases	149	(32)
Notes	181	(10)
References	191	(6)
Index	197