What Reason Demands

Rudiger Bittner
Cambridge University Press, 7/6/1989
EAN 9780521352154, ISBN10: 0521352150

Hardcover, 212 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
Originally published in German, translated by Theodore Talbot

Why should we act morally? What justification is to be found in moral demands? This lucid, pithy, and eminently readable book examines the arguments in favor of the claims of moral demands to be found in contemporary ethical theory, arguments deriving from Kant's attempt to provide a foundation for morality.

Preface
1. Why should I be moral?
2. Should I be moral?
3. Contracts
4. Promising
5. Autonomy
6. Prudence
7. Finitude
Notes
Bibliography
Indices.