
Published online:
19 January 2017
Published in print:
08 December 2016
Online ISBN:
9780191833205
Print ISBN:
9780199272754
Contents
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1. Action and Its Place in Ethics 1. Action and Its Place in Ethics
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2. Freedom and Purposiveness 2. Freedom and Purposiveness
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3. Motivation and Voluntariness 3. Motivation and Voluntariness
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4. The Non-Voluntariness of the Will 4. The Non-Voluntariness of the Will
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5. The Voluntariness-Based Model of Action 5. The Voluntariness-Based Model of Action
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6. Freedom and Scepticism: Incompatibilism 6. Freedom and Scepticism: Incompatibilism
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7. Freedom and Scepticism: Alternatives 7. Freedom and Scepticism: Alternatives
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8. Moral Responsibility and Reduction 8. Moral Responsibility and Reduction
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9. The Practical Reason-Based Model and Its Past 9. The Practical Reason-Based Model and Its Past
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10. Intention and Practical Reason 10. Intention and Practical Reason
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11. The Action-Constitutive Exercise of Reason 11. The Action-Constitutive Exercise of Reason
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12. Action and Its Motivation 12. Action and Its Motivation
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13. Voluntariness and Freedom of the Will 13. Voluntariness and Freedom of the Will
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14. Freedom and Causation 14. Freedom and Causation
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15. Freedom as a Power 15. Freedom as a Power
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Cite
Pink, Thomas, 'Introduction and Summary', Self-Determination: The Ethics of Action, Volume 1 (Oxford , 2016; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Jan. 2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199272754.003.0001, accessed 7 May 2025.
Abstract
This book is the first of two volumes under the general title The Ethics of Action which together will examine the significance of action within ethics. Does action matter ethically in a way that is distinctive, and if so, how? This volume examines whether action is the locus of a power of self-determination—a power to determine for ourselves what we do that might base a special, moral responsibility for how we act. The second volume will examine what kinds of normative standard are involved in ethics, and whether any ethical standards—such as obligation—are tied to directing action.
Keywords:
action, freedom, self-determination, power, reason, responsibility, Hobbes, Hume, normativity, obligation
Subject
Philosophy of Mind
Collection:
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