Reason and Morality

Reason and Morality
Author Alan Gewirth
Country United States
Language English
Subject Ethics
Published 1978
Media type Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages 401 (paperback edition)
ISBN 978-0226288765

Reason and Morality is a 1978 book about ethics by Alan Gewirth.

Summary

Gewirth attempts to develop a stringently rational foundation for morality. His central argument begins with a claim that every rational agent must accept, which is that he or she must have freedom and well-being. Gewirth claims that when the implications of this claim are fully worked out, it follows that every rational agent must also accept the claim that all prospective purposive agents have a moral right to freedom and well-being.[1]

Influence

Reason and Morality is the work for which Gewirth is best known.[1]

References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Sterba 2005. p. 339.

Bibliography

Books
  • Sterba, James P. (2005). Honderich, Ted, ed. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-926479-1. 


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