Freedom and Value FreedomỚ"s Influence on Welfare and Worldly Value /

• Main Author: Haji, Ishtiyaque. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 21
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Metaphysics.; Modern philosophy.; Philosophy of mind.; Modern Philosophy.; Philosophy of Mind.
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Freedom of the sort implicated in acting freely or with free will is important to the truth of different sorts of moral judgment, such as judgments of moral responsibility and those of moral obligation. Little thought, however, has been invested into whether appraisals of good or evil presuppose fre...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: On Welfare and Worldly Value
• Attitudinal Hedonism
• Freedom-Sensitive Versions of Attitudinal Hedonism
• Pleasure, Desert, and Welfare
• Authentic Springs of Action
• Incompatibilism, Compatibilism, Desert, and Value
• Freedom, Obligation, and the Good
• Hard IncompatibilismỚ"s Axiological Costs
• Hard Incompatibilism, Practical Reason, and the Good
• Value, Obligation, and Luck
• Freedom Presuppositions of Preferentism
• Freedom and Whole-Life Satisfaction Theories of Welfare.