The Beloved Self：Morality and the Challenge from Egoism

279 Pages·2010·8.017 MB·English

by  Alison Hills

Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of Abbreviations xi
1. The Holy Grail of Moral Philosophy 1
I. Egoism
2. Standard Egoism 11
3. Kantian Egoism 35
4. Virtue Egoism 65
II. ProblemsforMorality
5. Ambitious Vindication 89
6. Modest Vindication 121
7. Disagreement 148
III. In Defenceof Morality
8. Epistemic Rationality 169
9. Moral Understanding and Morally Worthy Action 188
10. Moral Testimony and Moral Disagreement 215
11. Against Egoism 233
12. Conclusion 250
Bibliography 254
Index 263
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Acknowledgements
ThisbookbeganasmyPhDthesis.Iwouldliketogiveparticularthanksto
myPhDsupervisorsJimmyAlthamandOnoraO’Neillfortheirguidance,
advice,andpatience.Thebookwouldhavecontainedmanymoremistakes
withoutthehelpfulcommentsofmanyotherpeople,including:Alexander
Bird, John Broome, Jessica Brown, Roger Crisp, Rowan Cruft, Dorothea
Debus,JimmyDoyle,JohnHawthorne,BradHooker,RobHopkins,Matt
Kramer, Hallvard Lillehammer, Elijah Millgram, Greg Scherkoske, Oliver
Sensen,BartStreumer,RalphWedgwood,TimWilliamson,andaudiences
at Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge, Sheffield, and San Diego.
I am particularly grateful to Jimmy Lenman, Eric Wiland, Alison Den-
ham, and an anonymous reader for the Oxford University Press for their
comments on the entire manuscript, and for the support and patience of
PeterMomtchiloff.IwouldalsoliketothankAlexanderErler,whohelped
with proofreading and with compiling the index.
I could not have written this book without periods of research leave,
funded by Clare College, Cambridge, Bristol University, and the Arts
and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). I am very grateful for their
support.
Some of the material in this book has already been published. Much
of Chapter 3 appeared as ‘Kant on Happiness and Reason’ in History of
Philosophy Quarterly (July 2006). Chapter 4 contains material from three
articles: ‘Duties and Duties to the Self’, American Philosophical Quarterly
(2003);‘RationalNatureastheSourceofValue’,KantianReview(2005);and
‘KantianValueRealism’,Ratio(2008).Partsofthepaper‘TheSignificance
oftheDualismofPracticalReason’,Utilitas,15(2003)appearinChapters2
and7.SomematerialfromChapter7isreprintedfrom‘IsEthicsRationally
Required?’ Inquiry (2004). And, finally, Part Three contains material from
‘MoralTestimonyandMoralEpistemology’,Ethics(2009).Iamgratefulto
the publishers of these journals for permission to reprint this material.
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