Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1. Dimensions of Practical Necessity: An Introduction
Part I. Examples: The Necessity of Love and the Unforgivable
2. Loving Eyes of My Own: Love, Particularity, and Necessity (Marya Schechtman)
3. "I cannot forgive you." The Unforgivable as an Example of a Practical Necessity (Oliver Hallich)
Part II. Normative Claims: Personal Practical Necessity and Practical Identities
4. Christine Korsgaard and the Normativity of Practical Identities (Christoph Bambauer)
5. What if I Cannot Do What I Have to Do? Notions of Personal Practical Necessity and the Principle "Ought Implies Can" (Michael K hler)
Part III. Normative Challenges: Vice and Akrasia
6. Vice, Practical Necessity, and Agential Self-Destruction (Jonathan Jacobs)
7. Three Ways to Understand Practical Necessity and akrasia: Aristotle, Davidson, and Frankfurt (Kathi Beier)
8. Here I stand, I could do other: Can a Person of Integrity Be Weak-Willed? (Arnd Pollmann)
Part IV. Volitional and Psychological Challenges: Ambiguity, Psychopathy, and Shame
9. Where? Me? Indeterminacy and Ambiguity in Human Motivation (Jan Bransen)
10. Shame and Necessity Redux (Heidi Maibom)
Part V. Concluding Evaluations
11. Here I Stand: About the Weight of Practical Necessity (Katharina Bauer)
12. Morality and Happiness: Two Precarious Situations? (Corinna Mieth)