The Robust Demands of the Good : Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect.

Cover -- The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect -- Copyright -- The Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Preview -- The Guiding Ideas -- The Plan of the Book -- 1: The Robust Demands of Attachment -- Love's Robust Demands -- The Range of Love's Demands -- The Good of Love -- Interlude: On Possibility, Priming, and Actual Provision -- The Executor of Love's Demands -- The Modesty Claim -- The Particularized Character of Love's Executor -- Love and Other Attachments -- Social Norms of Attachment -- 2: The Robust Demands of Virtue -- The Structure of Robust Demands -- Virtue's Robust Demands -- The Range of Virtue's Demands -- The Good of Virtue -- Interlude: On the Weighing of Reasons -- The Executor of Virtue's Demands -- The Modesty Claim -- Social Norms of Virtue -- Interlude: On the Psychological Reality of Virtue -- 3: The Robust Demands of Respect -- The Structure of Robust Demands, Extended -- The Nature of Respect -- Respectful Treatment -- Respect's Robust Demands -- The Range of Respect's Demands -- The Good of Respect -- The Executor of Respect's Demands -- Interlude: The Role of Law in Supporting Respect -- The Modesty Claim -- Social Norms of Respect -- 4: The Rationale of Robust Demands -- The Structure of Robust Demands, Completed -- Why Value the Robust Provision of Thin Goods? -- First Account: Dispositions Are a Means of Promoting Thin Benefits -- Second Account: Dispositions Are a Means of Promoting Peace of Mind -- Third Account: Dispositions Are a Means of Protecting or Securing Thin Benefits -- A Final Question -- 5: Doing Good and Being Good -- Being Good -- The Three Roles of Attachment, Virtue, and Respect -- Doing Good -- Action and Control -- Evaluating Agents, Acts, and Actions -- The Opposed Orthodoxy -- The Springs of Orthodoxy.

6: Doing Good and Doing Evil -- Doing Good and Evil: Asymmetry and Symmetry -- Explaining the Divergence -- The Asymmetry and Its Psychological Significance -- The Symmetry and Its Normative Significance -- The Doctrine of Double Effect -- The Principle of Action and Omission -- Ranking Remedy over Prevention -- 7: Doing Good and Doing Right -- The Goods of Attachment, Virtue, and Respect -- The Right and the Good -- The Sources of the Guidance Problem -- The Guidance Problem -- The Generality of the Guidance Problem -- A Response to the Problem -- A Model of a Moral Psychology -- Consequentialism and Non-Consequentialism -- For Consequentialism -- Consequentialism with a Human Face? -- Overview -- 1 The Robust Demands of Attachment -- 2 The Robust Demands of Virtue -- 3 The Robust Demands of Respect -- 4 The Rationale of Robust Demands -- 5 Doing Good and Being Good -- 6 Doing Good and Doing Evil -- 7 Doing Good and Doing Right -- Appendix I: Reconstructing Attachment, Virtue, and Respect -- Appendix II: Robustness and Probability -- Appendix III: Robust Robustness -- References -- Name Index -- General Index.

Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require their characteristic behaviours not only as things actually are, but also in cases where things are different from how they actually are. He explores the implications of this idea for key moral issues.

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