| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Part one. Shared agency -- Acting together -- Considerations on joint commitment -- Who's to blame? -- Rationality in collective action -- Two approaches to shared intention -- Part two. Collective attitudes -- Belief and acceptance as features of groups -- Collective epistemology -- Shared values, social unity, and liberty -- Social convention revisited -- Collective guilt and collective guilt feelings -- Part three. Mutual recognition, promises, and love -- Fusion: sketch of a "contractual" model -- Scanlon on promissory obligation: the problem of promisees' rights -- Three dogmas about promising -- Mutual recognition and some related phenomena -- Part four. Political life -- A real unity of them all -- Pro patria: an essay on patriotism -- De-moralizing political obligation -- Commands and their practical import |
| Summary |
This book comprises eighteen wide-ranging essays that share a common theme: the centrality of joint commitment to human life, both private and public. After an opening chapter that introduces joint commitment and the themes of the book, it is divided into four sections: shared agency; collective attitudes; mutual recognition, promises, and love; and political life. An important aspect of joint commitment is its provision of directed obligations and rights to the parties |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 11, 2013) |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy
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Sociology -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199369898 |
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0199369895 |
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