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EAN : 9782707157485
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 192
Size : 135 x 220 mm
ANTI-UTILITARIANIST THEORY OF ACTION

Collection : Textes à l'appui / Bibliothèque du M.A.U.S.S.
Release date : 12/03/2009

It is generally held that our actions, as social beings, are necessarily and always motivated by self-interest. Without underestimating the strength of such motives, an anti-utilitarianist theory of action shows how reductive this systematic focus on self-interest can be. Human beings seek above all to acquire public recognition as individuals...

It is generally held that our actions, as social beings, are necessarily and always motivated by self-interest. Without underestimating the strength of such motives, an anti-utilitarianist theory of action shows how reductive this systematic focus on self-interest can be. Human beings seek above all to acquire public recognition as individuals and it is only by freeing themselves from the narrow circle of self-interest that they can achieve this and no longer be reduced to the figure of the homo-oeconomicus.

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EAN : 9782707157485
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 192
Size : 135 x 220 mm
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