The Cage: Must, Should, And Ought from Is

, by Weissman, David

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ISBN: 9780791468791 | 0791468798
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/7/2006

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Introduction

(8)

Chapter One. Categorial Form

(16)

1. Evidence of Categorial Form

(1)

2. The Method for Discovering Categorial Form

(1)

3. Kantian Objections

(2)

4. Some Possible Categorial Forms

(5)

5. Antecedent Formulations

(1)

6. Practical Applications

(2)

7. Which Is the Better Hypothesis?

(4)

Chapter Two. Nature

(36)

1. Logic

(5)

2. Possible and Actual Worlds

(3)

3. The Actual World: Nature

(21)

A. Spacetime

(1)

B. Causality and Natural Laws

(6)

C. Dispositions

(9)

D. Systems

(5)

E. The Whole

(1)

4. Testability

(2)

5. Humean Objections

(3)

6. Natural Norms

(1)

Chapter Three. Practical Norms

(12)

1. How are Systems Formed and Stabilized?

(2)

2. Practical Imperatives

(4)

3. Ends and Aims

(3)

4. Consequential and Instrumental Values versus Intrinsic Values

(2)

5. From Is to Must, Should, or Ought

(1)

Chapter Four. Moral Norms

(128)

1. Semantic Preliminaries

(3)

2. The Context of Morality

(3)

3. Ontological Assumptions

(9)

4. Signature Values

(5)

5. Moral Psychology

(5)

6. Thick Moral Concepts: The Cognitive and Emotive Aspects of Moral Norms

(6)

7. Duties to Systems, Their Members, and Others

105

(21)

8. Moral Flashpoints

126

(13)

9. From Facts to Norms

139

(11)

10. Opposed Perspectives: Norms Founded in Material Systems or Rational Ideals

150

(11)

11. Norms of Several Kinds

161

(4)

12. Rights

165

(1)

13. Layered Publics

166

(5)

14. Truth and Error

171

(3)

15. Should and Ought from Is

174

(12)

16. Support from Principal Moral Theorists

186

(4)

17. Resolving the Diversity of Moral Theories

190

(11)

Chapter Five. Aesthetic Norms

201

(20)

1. The Conditions for Aesthetic Value in Created Works

202

(7)

2. Objections

209

(4)

3. Natural Beauty

213

(2)

4. Virtual Form

215

(2)

5. Must, Should, and Ought in the Context of Is

217

(4)

Chapter Six. Cultural Variation

221

(10)

1. Generic Needs and Their Determinate Expressions

221

(5)

2. Aristotelian and Nietzschean Problems

226

(2)

3. Change

228

(3)

Chapter Seven. Freedom

231

(34)

1. Positive and Negative Freedom

231

(2)

2. Alternative Ontologies

233

(3)

3. Free Will

236

(4)

4. Positive Freedom: Character and Opportunity

240

(5)

5. Pathologies of Freedom

245

(18)

6. Is Freedom Good-in-Itself?

263

(2)

Conclusion

265

(4)

Notes

269

(18)

Index

287

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