Rationality and Moral Theory : How Intimacy Generates Reasons

This book combines the details of the lived moral life the context in which many of our most pressing moral questions arise with theoretical rigor in offering an account of the nature of reasons, how we come to have moral knowledge, and how we can adjudicate between competing positions.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Agents and Their Reasons Chapter One: Situating the Project Chapter Two: How Not to Understand Reasons of Intimacy Chapter Three: Friends and Other Relations Chapter Four: Intimacy, Fidelity, and Commitments Chapter Five: Friendship and Particularism Chapter Six: Deontological Constraints and Dispute Resolution Chapter Seven: The Scope of the Objective Agent-Relative Conclusions: Reasons and Relationships Notes Bibliography Index