Prudence and the desire theory of reason
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Richard Foley
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Article
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1978
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Springer
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English
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Oxford, 1970) . Nagel is also concerned to show that the desire theory's treatment of altruism is inadequate. Although I believe the desire theory can supply an adequate account of altruism as well as prudence, in the present paper I deal only with the latter. 2 The desire theory, in other words,