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The Moral Nexus
Hardback
Main Details
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The Moral Nexus
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) R. Jay Wallace
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| Series | Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:328 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 155 |
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| Category/Genre | Philosophy - metaphysics and ontology
Ethics and moral philosophy |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780691172170
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| Classifications | Dewey:170 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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| Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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| Publication Date |
26 February 2019 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
The Moral Nexus develops and defends a new interpretation of morality-namely, as a set of requirements that connect agents normatively to other persons in a nexus of moral relations. According to this relational interpretation, moral demands are directed to other individuals, who have claims that the agent comply with these demands. Interpersonal m
Author Biography
R. Jay Wallace is the Judy Chandler Webb Distinguished Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments, Normativity and the Will, and The View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret.
Reviews"[A] wonderful accomplishment: to have provided us with a highly original and ambitious reinterpretation of the moral domain and to thereby have paved the way for a potential paradigm shift in moral theorizing against the background of the basic idea that "no individual is either more or less important than any other" (p. 20)."---Jonas Vandieken, Journal of Moral Philosophy
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