1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454941803321

Autore

Thompson Michael <1959->

Titolo

Life and action [[electronic resource] ] : elementary structures of practice and practical thought / / Michael Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-674-03396-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Classificazione

CC 6960

Disciplina

191

Soggetti

Ethics

Conduct of life

Life

Agent (Philosophy)

Act (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: The representation of life -- Can life be given a real definition? -- The representation of the living individual -- The representation of the life-form itself -- Part II: Naive action theory -- Types of practical explanation -- Naive explanation of action -- Action and time -- Part III: Practical generality -- Two tendencies in practical philosophy -- Practices and dispositions as sources of the goodness of individual actions -- Practice and disposition as sources of individual action.

Sommario/riassunto

Any sound practical philosophy must be clear on practical concepts-concepts, in particular, of life, action, and practice. This clarity is Michael Thompson's aim in his ambitious work. In Thompson's view, failure to comprehend the structures of thought and judgment expressed in these concepts has disfigured modern moral philosophy, rendering it incapable of addressing the larger questions that should be its focus.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996396550803316

Titolo

A Short discourse shewing the great inconvenience of joyning the plantation charters with those of England in the General Act of restoration, and the necessity of having for them a particular act [[electronic resource] ] : humbly offered to the Parliament on the occasion of that bill : wherein is contained a full answer to a late pamphlet intituled, New-England vindicated, &c. / / by a true lover of his country, and a hearty wisher of the prosperity of the said plantations

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London, : s.n., 1689?]

Descrizione fisica

4 p

Soggetti

Massachusetts Charters

Massachusetts Politics and government To 1775

Great Britain Politics and government 1689-1702

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Caption title.

Place and date of publication from Wing (2nd ed.).

Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014