How Long to Read Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation

How Long Does it Take to Read Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 48 minutes to read Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation by Craig M. White

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book argues that the moral quality of an act comes from the agent’s inner states. By arguing for the indispensable relevance of intention in the moral evaluation of acts, the book moves against a mainstream, "objective" approach in normative ethics. It is commonly held that the intentions, knowledge, and volition of agents are irrelevant to the moral permissibility of their acts. This book stresses that the capacities of agency, rather than simply the label "agent," must be engaged during an act if its moral evaluation is to be coherent. The author begins with an ontological argument that an act is a motion or a causing of change in something else. He argues that the source of an act’s moral meaning is in the agent: specifically, what the agent, if aware of relevant facts around her, aims to accomplish. He then moves to a series of critical chapters that consider arguments for mainstream approaches to act evaluation, including Thomson’s dismissal of the agent knowledge and volition requirements, Scanlon’s arguments for a derivative relevance of intentions to permissibility, Frowe’s "causal roles" of agents in the moral evaluation of acts, and Bennett’s explicit defense of the objective approach. The book concludes by offering the author’s preferred replacement for the objective approach, an Aristotelian-Thomist view of acts. Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, just war theory, the ethics of self-defense, and philosophy of action.

How long is Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation?

Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation by Craig M. White is 165 pages long, and a total of 42,075 words.

This makes it 56% the length of the average book. It also has 51% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 49 minutes to read Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation aloud.

What Reading Level is Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation?

Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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