The Possibility of Altruism / / Thomas Nagel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Nagel, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Postscript --; Contents --; Part One: Ethics and Human Motivation --; I. The Foundation of Morals --; II. The Traditional Controversy --; III. The Solution --; IV. Necessity and Interpretation --; Part Two: Subjective Reasons and Prudence --; V. Desires --; VI. Prudential Motives and the Present --; VII. Reasons --; VIII. The Interpretation of Prudential Reasons: Identity over Time --; Part Three: Objective Reasons and Altruism --; IX. Altruism: The Intuitive Issue --; X. Objective Reasons --; XI. Solipsism, Dissociation, and the Impersonal Standpoint --; XII. The Interpretation of Objective Reasons --; XIII. The Consequences --; XIV. Conclusion --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400884490; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400884490
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas Nagel.

Just as there are rational requirements on thought, there are rational requirements on action. This book defends a conception of ethics, and a related conception of human nature, according to which altruism is included among the basic rational requirements on desire and action.