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    Morality and reasons to act

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    Abstract
    The main goal of this thesis is to shed some light on the nature of reasons to act, and the nature of the relationship between morality and reasons to act, through a defense of rational egoism. Rational egoism holds that an agent's reasons to act are grounded by his self-interest, which is conceived as something different from, and not relativized to, his desires. In other words, for a rational egoist, an agent is rational if he does what is, in fact, good for him. I develop a version of rational egoism, and then argue that my version of rational egoism is at least as viable as, if not ...
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    Author(s)
    Gavronsky, Joseph

    Advisor(s)
    Tropman, Elizabeth

    Date Issued
    2012
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    born digital; masters theses
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