The Obligation Dilemma
Autor Ishtiyaque Hajien Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 oct 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190050856
ISBN-10: 0190050853
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 211 x 147 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190050853
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 211 x 147 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
In his exciting and challenging new book, The Obligation Dilemma, Ishtiyaque Haji presents forceful arguments which, if correct, show that moral obligation is incompatible both with determinism and with indeterminism. Determinism plausibly would entail that we lack the kind of freedom of action that, arguably, we must have, if we have any obligations. Indeterminism plausibly would entail that we lack the kind of control over our actions that, arguably, we must have, if we have any obligations. Since our world is either deterministic or indeterministic, Haji's arguments thus seem to show that there are no moral obligations. Must we conclude that everything is permitted? This is a significant challenge to moral philosophy, and to our conception of morality as setting constraints on how we are permitted to act.
Haji makes an impressive, powerful case for the existence of a deep problem about the very possibility of moral obligation, one that resembles problems about the possibility of free will and moral responsibility but is even more challenging. This carefully argued, insightful book accords sustained critical attention to a wealth of relevant literature on obligation, free will, and moral responsibility, and it will undoubtedly motivate readers to try to develop a solution to Haji's obligation dilemma. It is an important, ground-breaking contribution to the literature.
Haji makes an impressive, powerful case for the existence of a deep problem about the very possibility of moral obligation, one that resembles problems about the possibility of free will and moral responsibility but is even more challenging. This carefully argued, insightful book accords sustained critical attention to a wealth of relevant literature on obligation, free will, and moral responsibility, and it will undoubtedly motivate readers to try to develop a solution to Haji's obligation dilemma. It is an important, ground-breaking contribution to the literature.
Notă biografică
Ishtiyaque Haji is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. His research areas are in ethical theory, philosophy of action, metaphysics, and philosophical psychology. He is author of Luck's Mischief (2016) and Reason's Debt to Freedom (2012), both with Oxford University Press.