Overview
- A timely reaction to the "turn to reasons" in moral philosophy
- Takes the reader back to the basic normative question
- Defends a realist conception of the ought-question
- Boldly claims that the only unique question in ethics is: "What ought to be done?"
Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 22)
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Book Title: From Reasons to Norms
Book Subtitle: On the Basic Question in Ethics
Authors: Torbjörn Tännsjö
Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3285-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3284-3Published: 04 February 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3149-3Published: 04 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3285-0Published: 12 December 2009
Series ISSN: 1387-6678
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 168
Topics: Ethics, Philosophy, general