Brandt on rationality, value, and morality

✍ Scribed by Noah M. Lemos

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 838 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8116
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00372992

✦ Synopsis

In this paper I consider the views of R. B. Brandt on the nature of rational action and rational desire and the relation between these concepts and those of intrinsic value and morality. I shall first present briefly Brandt's views on rational action and desire as they are presented in his article 'Rationality, Egoism, and Morality' and in his more recent work, A Theory of the Good and the Right. I shall then present certain objections to Brandt's account of