Reasons, Rights, and Values (Paperback)

Introduction: practical reason, moral justification, and the grounds of value; Part I. Reasons for Action: 1. Reasons, practical reason, and practical reasoning; 2. Intrinsic value and reasons for action; 3. The grounds and structure of reasons for action; 4. Practical reason and the status of moral obligation; Part II. Intuition, Obligation, and Virtue: 5. Intuitions, intuitionism, and moral judgment; 6. Kantian intuitionism as a framework for the justification of moral judgments; 7. Moral virtue and reasons for action; 8. Virtue ethics in theory and practice; Part III. Religion, Politics, and the Obligations of Citizenship: 9. Wrongs within rights; 10. Religion and the politics of science: can evolutionary biology be religiously neutral?; 11. Nationalism, patriotism, and cosmopolitanism in an age of globalization; Index.