... independent judiciary invisible hand explanation nonviolent resistance political rights rational self-interest self-regulating mechanism Amartya Sen ultimatum game He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. . . . He intends only his own...

... responsible, as understood in terms of moral sentiments or reactive attitudes, have also advanced accounts of moral capacity and moral agency in terms of powers of rational self-control or reasons responsiveness. These accounts do not, however, involve any reference to moral sentiments and our ability to hold...

...This book attempts to answer the challenge of showing that morality is not a confidence trick or a fetish. It does so by arguing that moral norms are those that rational, self‐interested people could accept. The problem is approached by asking by what right some people punish others...

..., the role of emotion in that process, and its relation to notions of self-worth and rational self-concern. The chapter explains the role of friends in the process of self-constitution, and reviews the relevant works of David Hume and Baruch Spinoza. connection Hume D natural disposition or inclination...

... to ancient Greek philosophy from its beginnings with Heraclitus and Parmenides to its elaboration seven centuries later in the Enneads of Plotinus the notion of a rational self. The Greek philosophers did not generally highlight rationality and self for explicit discussion. (Marcus Aurelius, to whom I devote...

...This chapter examines three seventeenth-century feminist critiques of the misogynist pamphleteer John Sprint (fl. 1699–1700). It demonstrates that an ideal of freedom as rational self-governance—controlling one’s own will in conformity with the law of reason—plays a crucial role in the arguments...

... Anthony victimology Enlightenment the pathological self the positivism rational self the self the biological factors as cause of crime Chicago School delinquency Ferri Enrico medical biological model of delinquency social variables and criminal behaviour neoclassical school penal welfarism...

.... determinism indeterminism moral sentiments reactive attitudes naturalism skepticism Strawson P F libertarianism philosophy excuses and exemptions responsibility objective attitude compatibilism and rational self control human nature Haji Ishtiyaque Kane Robert Nagel Thomas Watson Gary moral...

...‘Justice as mutual advantage’ theorists argue that moral norms are those that rational, self‐interested persons would accept in regulating the pursuit of their self‐interest. Taking David Gauthier's theory as an exemplar of this approach, it is argued that justice as mutual advantage cannot close...

... that freedom is simply a matter of being able to do as one pleases or act according to the determination of one’s own will. To address this, many influential contemporary philosophers who subscribe to the compatibilist view have placed emphasis on developing an account of “rational self-control” or “reasons...

... and rational self control Darrow Clarence Dennett Daniel pessimism and optimism intuition pumps Strawson P F fate fatalism manipulation implantation self moral Ayer A J compulsion Davidson Donald free will Hobbes Thomas Hume David Schlick Moritz agency and action determinism indeterminism...

...Chapter 7 discusses the fifth CBSM session. This session introduces autogenic training and instructs participants in imagery and passive concentration, and a heaviness and warmth autogenic exercise, along with the differences between irrational and rational self-talk, and steps to practice rational...

... at the relationship between essentialism and the performance of race. It argues that the performance of ballroom dance is structured by the dualistic and racialized notions of a rational self, a normalized whiteness, and an embodied, explicitly racialized other. race racialization and ballroom genres salsa...

...Offers an interpretation of the core conception of freedom found in Hegel's social and political philosophy. It argues that to an extent that is sometimes underestimated in the secondary literature Hegel follows Kant in conceptualizing freedom as rational self‐determination. Through a study...

... problems in philosophy depend on our answers to these questions. This chapter shows that a conception of ourselves as rational self-determiners is fundamental to the way we think about reasons; that this conception has significant implications for their epistemology and ontology...

... of a rational self was bound up with questions about divinity and happiness called eudaimonia, meaning a god-favoured life or a life of likeness to the divine. While these questions are remote from current thought, the author also situates the book’s themes in modern discussions of the self...

..., it is necessary to list them here. Complex political ideologies Emotion Individual variation Negative-sum games Perceived control Rational self-interest Scapegoating he preceding chapters raise complex and deep issues about why people act and believe as they do. Clearly, people are not only acting...