1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910708202903321

Titolo

Washington, the nation's capital / / National Capital Parks, Washington, D.C. ; National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : National Capital Parks : , : National Park Service, , [2011]

Edizione

[[2011 rev. ed.].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 map) : color

Soggetti

Central business districts - Washington (D.C.)

Shuttle services - Washington (D.C.)

Central business districts

Shuttle services

Tourist maps.

Facsimiles.

Maps.

Washington (D.C.) Maps

Washington (D.C.) Maps Facsimiles

Washington (D.C.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale cartografico a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Covers central business district and federal enclave.

Selected buildings shown pictorially.

Shows radial distances from Washington Monument.

Also shows Tourmobile shuttle routes.

"*GPO:2011--365-615/80616 Reprint 2011."

Panel title.

Includes text and tourist information directory.

Text, city chronology, illustrative facsims. of L'Enfant and McMillan plans, and col. ill. on verso.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780304903321

Autore

Bennett Jonathan <1930->

Titolo

The act itself / / Jonathan Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995

ISBN

0-19-106899-3

0-19-159707-4

1-281-98087-0

9786611980870

0-19-151894-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

170.4/4

Soggetti

Consequentialism (Ethics)

Act (Philosophy)

Human behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-234) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""PREFACE""; ""CONTENTS""; ""1. ANALYSIS""; ""1. Morality's Grid""; ""2. What is Analysis?""; ""3. Objections to Philosophical Analysis""; ""4. A Statement of Non-realism""; ""5. Moral Non-realism and Entailment""; ""6. Unifying Theory""; ""7. Levels of Morality""; ""2. FACTS ABOUT BEHAVIOUR""; ""8. How the 'By'-Locution Works""; ""9. 'Act'""; ""10. The Grammar of the 'By'-Locution""; ""11. Intrinsic Behavioural Facts""; ""12. Relational Features of Behaviour""; ""13. Fact Causation""; ""14. 'Itself'""; ""3. MORAL JUDGEMENT""; ""15. First- and Second-Order Morality""

""16. Knowability and First-Order Morality""""17. Concepts of Probability""; ""18. The Probability Principle""; ""19. Morality and Bad Luck""; ""4. MAKING/ALLOWING""; ""20. The Difference between Making and Allowing""; ""21. Trouble with 'Allow' and 'Let'""; ""22. The Bubble Phenomenon""; ""23. Prepositional Matches""; ""24. The Match Phenomenon""; ""5. MORAL SIGNIFICANCE""; ""25. Basic Moral Significance""; ""26. Intuitions about Cases""; ""27. Sometimes but not Always?""; ""28. The Difficulty Excuse""; ""6. POSITIVE/NEGATIVE""; ""29. 'Negative Acts'""; ""30. Negative Relevance""



""31. A Metric for the Behaviour Space""""32. The Immobility Objection""; ""33. Doubts about the Metric""; ""7. ACTIVE/PASSIVE""; ""34. Agency and 'the Course of Nature'""; ""35. The Two Distinctions as Collaborators""; ""36. Immobility Again""; ""37. What is 'the Course of Nature'?""; ""38. The Non-intervention Principle""; ""8. OTHER ATTEMPTS""; ""39. Changing Conditions""; ""40. Threats and Efforts""; ""41. Making and Causing""; ""42. A Short Lecture on Pragmatics""; ""43. Tighter Meanings for 'Cause'?""; ""44. Other Attempted Analyses""; ""45. The Neutrality of Making/Allowing""

""9. DEMANDS""""46. Morality as too Demanding: Tight Reins""; ""47. Morality as too Demanding: The Thwarting of Desires""; ""48. Morality of Self-interest""; ""49. Affections""; ""50. The Collapse of the Self-interest Defence""; ""51. Arguing for Making/Allowing Asymmetry""; ""10. ATROCITIES""; ""52. Crises""; ""53. Forms of Absolutism""; ""54. Atrocity and Policy""; ""55. Absolutism and Moral Character""; ""56. Comparative Value of Upshots""; ""57. Other Agents""; ""58. Their Projects""; ""59. Deontology""; ""11. INTENTIONS""; ""60. Intentions and First-Order Morality""

""61. The Principle of Double Effect""""62. Intentions as Explanatory""; ""63. Delimiting the Means: Acts and Events""; ""64. Delimiting the Means: Facts""; ""65. The Morality of the Means Principle: 'Intend'""; ""66. The Morality of the Means Principle: 'Means'""; ""67. The Morality of the Means Principle: Character""; ""68. A Limited Success""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX OF PERSONS""; ""INDEX OF SUBJECTS"";

Sommario/riassunto

Jonathan Bennett's aim in The Act Itself, is to clarify what is going on in our own moral thoughts and to show us how to take more control of our thoughts and moral lives.