书名: Appearances of the Good: An Essay on the Nature of Practical Reason
作者: Sergio Tenenbaum (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (January 8, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0521837839
ISBN-13: 978-0521837835
http://ishare.iask.sina.com.cn/cgi-bin/fileid.cgi?fileid=3662599
Book Description
'We desire all and only those things we conceive to be good; we avoid what we conceive to be bad.' This slogan was once the standard view of the relationship between desire or motivation and rational evaluation. Many critics have rejected this scholastic formula as either trivial or wrong. It appears to be trivial if we just define the good as 'what we want', and wrong if we consider apparent conflicts between what we seem to want and what we seem to think is good. In Appearances of the Good, Sergio Tenenbaum argues that the old slogan is both significant and right, even in cases of apparent conflict between our desires and our evaluative judgments. Maintaining that the good is the formal end of practical inquiry in much the same way as truth is the formal end of theoretical inquiry, he provides a fully unified account of motivation and evaluation.

Review
'A must-read for those with a serious interest either in the nature of desire or the nature of practical reasoning." -- Mark Schroeder, Social Theory & Practice

About the Author
Sergio Tenenbaum is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He has contributed to Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Nous, Philosophical Quarterly, and Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and is editor of New Perspectives in Moral Psychology.