Overview
- Examines free will’s relevance to personal well-being
- Examines free will’s relevance to the intrinsic value of possible worlds
- Uncovers conceptual links between authentic springs of action and moral obligation
- Argues that living without free will has hitherto unappreciated axiological costs
- Develops freedom-sensitive versions of hedonism
Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 21)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Freedom of the sort implicated in acting freely or with free will is important to the truth of different sorts of moral judgment, such as judgments of moral responsibility and those of moral obligation. Little thought, however, has been invested into whether appraisals of good or evil presuppose free will. This important topic has not commanded the attention it deserves owing to what is perhaps a prevalent assumption that freedom leaves judgments concerning good and evil largely unaffected. The central aim of this book is to dispute this assumption by arguing for the relevance of free will to the truth of two sorts of such judgment: welfare-ranking judgments or judgments of personal well-being (when is one's life intrinsically good for the one who lives it?), and world-ranking judgments (when is a possible world intrinsically better than another?). The book also examines free will’s impact on the truth of such judgments for central issues in moral obligation and in the free will debate. This book should be of interest to those working on intrinsic value, personal well-being, moral obligation, and free will.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Freedom and Value
Book Subtitle: Freedom’s Influence on Welfare and Worldly Value
Authors: Ishtiyaque Haji
Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9077-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9076-9Published: 22 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8063-9Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9077-6Published: 24 October 2008
Series ISSN: 1387-6678
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 204
Topics: Ethics, Metaphysics, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind