Act Itself.

The Act Itself offers a deeper understanding of what is going on in our own moral thoughts about human behaviour. Jonathan Bennett argues that many of the descriptions of behaviour on which our thoughts are based are confused; others may be free of confusion, but still we are not clear in our minds...

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Main Author: Bennett, Jonathan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, USA, 1995.
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505 0 |a ""PREFACE""; ""CONTENTS""; ""1. ANALYSIS""; ""1. Morality's Grid""; ""2. What is Analysis?""; ""3. Objections to Philosophical Analysis""; ""4. A Statement of Non-realism""; ""5. Moral Non-realism and Entailment""; ""6. Unifying Theory""; ""7. Levels of Morality""; ""2. FACTS ABOUT BEHAVIOUR""; ""8. How the 'By'-Locution Works""; ""9. 'Act'""; ""10. The Grammar of the 'By'-Locution""; ""11. Intrinsic Behavioural Facts""; ""12. Relational Features of Behaviour""; ""13. Fact Causation""; ""14. 'Itself'""; ""3. MORAL JUDGEMENT""; ""15. First- and Second-Order Morality"" 
505 8 |a ""16. Knowability and First-Order Morality""""17. Concepts of Probability""; ""18. The Probability Principle""; ""19. Morality and Bad Luck""; ""4. MAKING/ALLOWING""; ""20. The Difference between Making and Allowing""; ""21. Trouble with 'Allow' and 'Let'""; ""22. The Bubble Phenomenon""; ""23. Prepositional Matches""; ""24. The Match Phenomenon""; ""5. MORAL SIGNIFICANCE""; ""25. Basic Moral Significance""; ""26. Intuitions about Cases""; ""27. Sometimes but not Always?""; ""28. The Difficulty Excuse""; ""6. POSITIVE/NEGATIVE""; ""29. 'Negative Acts'""; ""30. Negative Relevance"" 
505 8 |a ""31. A Metric for the Behaviour Space""""32. The Immobility Objection""; ""33. Doubts about the Metric""; ""7. ACTIVE/PASSIVE""; ""34. Agency and 'the Course of Nature'""; ""35. The Two Distinctions as Collaborators""; ""36. Immobility Again""; ""37. What is 'the Course of Nature'?""; ""38. The Non-intervention Principle""; ""8. OTHER ATTEMPTS""; ""39. Changing Conditions""; ""40. Threats and Efforts""; ""41. Making and Causing""; ""42. A Short Lecture on Pragmatics""; ""43. Tighter Meanings for 'Cause'?""; ""44. Other Attempted Analyses""; ""45. The Neutrality of Making/Allowing"" 
505 8 |a ""9. DEMANDS""""46. Morality as too Demanding: Tight Reins""; ""47. Morality as too Demanding: The Thwarting of Desires""; ""48. Morality of Self-interest""; ""49. Affections""; ""50. The Collapse of the Self-interest Defence""; ""51. Arguing for Making/Allowing Asymmetry""; ""10. ATROCITIES""; ""52. Crises""; ""53. Forms of Absolutism""; ""54. Atrocity and Policy""; ""55. Absolutism and Moral Character""; ""56. Comparative Value of Upshots""; ""57. Other Agents""; ""58. Their Projects""; ""59. Deontology""; ""11. INTENTIONS""; ""60. Intentions and First-Order Morality"" 
505 8 |a ""61. The Principle of Double Effect""""62. Intentions as Explanatory""; ""63. Delimiting the Means: Acts and Events""; ""64. Delimiting the Means: Facts""; ""65. The Morality of the Means Principle: 'Intend'""; ""66. The Morality of the Means Principle: 'Means'""; ""67. The Morality of the Means Principle: Character""; ""68. A Limited Success""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX OF PERSONS""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""; ""INDEX OF SUBJECTS""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E"" 
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520 |a The Act Itself offers a deeper understanding of what is going on in our own moral thoughts about human behaviour. Jonathan Bennett argues that many of the descriptions of behaviour on which our thoughts are based are confused; others may be free of confusion, but still we are not clear in our minds about what thoughts they are. His aim is to show how to use conceptual analysis to get more control of our thoughts and thus of our moral and intellectual lives. 
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