Freedom and Value: Freedom's Influence on Welfare and Worldly Value - Couverture rigide

Haji, Ishtiyaque

 
9781402090769: Freedom and Value: Freedom's Influence on Welfare and Worldly Value

Synopsis

Freedom of the sort implicated in acting freely or with free will is important to the truth of different sorts of moral judgment, such as judgments of moral responsibility and those of moral obligation. Little thought, however, has been invested into whether appraisals of good or evil presuppose free will. This important topic has not commanded the attention it deserves owing to what is perhaps a prevalent assumption that freedom leaves judgments concerning good and evil largely unaffected. The central aim of this book is to dispute this assumption by arguing for the relevance of free will to the truth of two sorts of such judgment: welfare-ranking judgments or judgments of personal well-being (when is one's life intrinsically good for the one who lives it?), and world-ranking judgments (when is a possible world intrinsically better than another?). The book also examines free will's impact on the truth of such judgments for central issues in moral obligation and in the free will debate. This book should be of interest to those working on intrinsic value, personal well-being, moral obligation, and free will.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This original book examines free will’s relevance to personal well-being, and its relevance to the intrinsic value of possible worlds. The book should be of interest to those working on intrinsic value, personal well-being, moral obligation, and free will.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9789048180639: Freedom and Value: Freedom’s Influence on Welfare and Worldly Value

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  9048180635 ISBN 13 :  9789048180639
Editeur : Springer, 2010
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