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Normative theory in international relations : a pragmatic approach
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ISBN: 0521639654 Year: 1999 Volume: 68 Publisher: Cambridge New York Melbourne Cambridge University Press

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Molly Cochran offers an account of the development of normative theory in international relations over the past two decades. In particular, she analyses the tensions between cosmopolitan and communitarian approaches to international ethics and offers an argument for a pragmatist approach.

Brute rationality : normativity and human action
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ISBN: 0521833183 051121121X 9780511211218 9780521833189 0511216580 9780511216589 0511212984 9780511212987 0511214790 9780511214790 9780511487088 0511487088 9780521039536 0521039533 1107149134 1280516127 0511315368 Year: 2004 Volume: *26 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book presents an account of normative practical reasons and the way in which they contribute to the rationality of action. Rather than simply 'counting in favour of' actions, normative reasons play two logically distinct roles: requiring action and justifying action. The distinction between these two roles explains why some reasons do not seem relevant to the rational status of an action unless the agent cares about them, while other reasons retain all their force regardless of the agent's attitude. It also explains why the class of rationally permissible action is wide enough to contain not only all morally required action, but also much selfish and immoral action. The book will appeal to a range of readers interested in practical reason in particular, and moral theory more generally.

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