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Table of Contents
1.
Self-Defeating Theories
1.
Theories That Are Indirectly Self-Defeating
Page 3
1.
The Self-interest Theory
Page 3
2.
How S Can Be Indirectly Self-defeating
Page 5
3.
Does S Tell Us To Be Never Self-denying?
Page 7
4.
Why S Does Not Fail In Its Own Terms
Page 11
5.
Could It Be Rational To Cause Onself to Act Irrationally?
Page 12
6.
How S Implies that We Cannot Avoid Acting Irrationally
Page 13
7.
An Argument For Rejecting S When It Comflicts With Morality
Page 17
8.
Why This Argument Fails
Page 19
9.
How S Might Be Self-Effacing
Page 23
10.
How Consequentialism Is Indirectly Self-defeating
Page 24
11.
Why C Does Not Fail In Its Own Terms
Page 28
12.
The Ethics of Fantasy
Page 29
13.
Collective Consequentialism
Page 30
14.
Blameless Wrongdoing
Page 31
15.
Could It Be Impossible to Avoid Acting Wrongly?
Page 35
16.
Could It Be Right to Cause Oneself to Act Wrongly?
Page 37
17.
How C Might Be Self-Effacing
Page 40
18.
The Objection that Assumes Inflexibility
Page 43
19.
Can Being Rational or Moral Be a Mere Means?
Page 45
20.
Conclusions
Page 49
2.
Practical Dilemmas
Page 53
21.
Why C Cannot Be Directly Self-defeating
Page 53
22.
How Theories Can Be Directly Self-defeating
Page 55
23.
Prisoner's Dilemmas and Public Goods
Page 56
24.
The Practical Problem and its Solutions
Page 62
3.
Five Mistakes in Moral Mathematics
Page 67
25.
The Share-of-the-Total View
Page 67
26.
Ignoring the Effects of Sets of Acts
Page 70
27.
Ignoring Small Chances
Page 73
28.
Ignoring Small or Imperceptible Effects
Page 75
29.
Can There Be Imperceptible Harms and Benefits?
Page 78
30.
Overdetermination
Page 82
31.
Rational Altruism
Page 83
4.
Theories That Are Directly Self-Defeating
Page 87
32.
In Prisoner's Dilemmas, Does S Fail in Its Own Terms?
Page 88
33.
Another Bad Defence of Morality
Page 91
34.
Intertemporal Dilemmas
Page 92
35.
A Bad Defence of S
Page 93
36.
How Common-Sense Morality Is Directly Self-Defeating
Page 95
37.
The Five Parts of a Moral Theory
Page 98
38.
How We Can Revise Common-Sense Morality so that It Would Not Be Self-Defeating
Page 100
39.
Why We Ought to Revise Common-Sense Morality
Page 103
40.
A Simpler Revision
Page 108
5.
Two Possibilities
Page 111
41.
Reducing the DIstance between M and C
Page 111
42.
The First Possibility
Page 112
43.
Work to be Done
Page 113
44.
The Second Possibility
Page 114
2.
Rationality and Time
6.
The Best Objection to the Self-Interest Theory
Page 117
45.
The Present-aim Theory
Page 117
46.
Can Desires Be Intrinsically Irrational, or Rationally Required?
Page 120
47.
Three Competing Theories
Page 126
48.
Psychological Egoism
Page 127
49.
The Self-interest Theory and Morality
Page 129
50.
My First Argument
Page 130
51.
The S-Theorist's First Reply
Page 132
52.
Why Temporal Neutrality Is Not the Issue Between S and P
Page 133
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. [533]-540.
Includes index.
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