 | Amélie Rorty - 1976 - 344 страници
...does arise, must be required to win; and that cannot necessarily be a reasonable demand on the agent. There can come a point at which it is quite unreasonable...any interest in being around in that world at all. Once one thinks about what is involved in having a character, one can see that the Kantians' omission... | |
 | Thomas Pogge - 1989 - 316 страници
...having a character. Fourth, the sense of justice need not be determinative for all persons all the time. "There can come a point at which it is quite unreasonable...any interest in being around in that world at all" (ML 141. Indeed, such a point may come. Yet one need not say, I think, that he is justified in refusing... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - 1989 - 236 страници
...an agent], must be required to win, and that cannot necessarily be a reasonable demand on the agent. There can come a point at which it is quite unreasonable...condition of his having any interest in being around in the world at all.29 According to Williams, then, quite particular and primitive projects and attachments... | |
 | David Owen Brink - 1989 - 394 страници
...does arise, must be required to win; and that cannot necessarily be a reasonable demand on the agent. There can come a point at which it is quite unreasonable...condition of his having any interest in being around in the world at all. (1976a: 14) The fact that Williams here takes Kantian views of morality to be equally... | |
 | Gerald F. Gaus - 1990 - 564 страници
...morality in general, and Rawls's theory in particular, Bernard Williams argues that "[t|here can comc a point at which it is quite unreasonable for a man to give up, in the name of an impartial good ordering of the world of moral agents, something which is a condition of his having... | |
 | Owen Flanagan - 1993 - 414 страници
...would be deeply irrational (ceteris paribus) to do that which would render one's life meaningless. "There can come a point at which it is quite unreasonable...condition of his having any interest in being around in the world at all" (p. 14). The general argument has a fair amount of cogency (although it is not demonstrative),... | |
 | Elizabeth Hankins Wolgast - 1992 - 180 страници
...have priority over other considerations; other things must fit around them, including the public good. "There can come a point at which it is quite unreasonable for a man to give up, in the name of that impartial good ordering of the world of moral agents, something which is a condition of his having... | |
 | William Rehg - 2023 - 300 страници
...the damage done to John by compliance with the general norm would have to be such that he "would have to give up, in the name of the impartial good ordering...having any interest in being around in that world at all."50 In any case, particular narratives would come into play, narratives featuring the situations... | |
 | Robert Merrihew Adams - 1999 - 424 страници
...give up his ground projects for the sake of impartial morality. "There can come a point," he says, "at which it is quite unreasonable for a man to give...any interest in being around in that world at all." 17 But surely it is possible to care passionately about particular goods and projects and still to... | |
 | Sigrún Svavarsdóttir - 2001 - 166 страници
...does arise, must be required to win; and that cannot necessarily be a reasonable demand on the agent. There can come a point at which it is quite unreasonable...any interest in being around in that world at all" (Ibid., 14 — italics mine). I do not have the space to discuss this issue here. Suffice it to say... | |
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There can come a point at which it is quite unreasonable for a man to give up, in the name of the impartial good ordering of the world of moral agents, something which is a condition of his having any interest in being around in that world at all. 
