The Practical Authority of Normative Beliefs: Toward an Integrated

Organon F 20 (4) 2013: 527-545
The Practical Authority of Normative Beliefs:
Toward an Integrated Theory of Practical Rationality
ROBERT AUDI
Department of Philosophy. University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall. Notre Dame, IN 46556. USA
[email protected]
RECEIVED: 03-10-2012 ACCEPTED: 25-06-2013
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Enkrasia
The Author. Journal compilation
Institute of Philosophy SAS
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enkrasia requirement.
overall
enkrasia
global rationality,
1. Weakness of Will, Practical Judgment, and Rational Action
consideration
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against
non
un
in
weak
of
unwillingly
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enkrasia
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rationally
enkrasia
2. Four Models of Rational Action
this
potential
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the executive model
the instrumentalist model
the fidelity to premises model –
practical reasoning
–
the well-groundedness model
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does
any
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reasoned
excusable
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rationalization
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ir
to perform
performing
3. Belief, Judgment, and Enkratic Principles
hold
activity
reflecting
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moderate enkratic principle
diachronic principle of enkrasia
form
before
either
then
thereby
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enkratic principle for action
at that
time –
4. Focal Versus Global Rationality
perfectly
moderate judgmental grounding
principle
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irrational
integrated
and then
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5. Rationality as Responsiveness to Grounds
that
that
to rectify
my seeing smoke.
that I see
in
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smoke billowing up from it
a
original
why
why
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enkratic
enkratic
state
moderate evidential grounding principle
coherence requirement –
incoherence
requirement –
diachronic modus-ponential principle
instrumentalist volition principle
wills
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enkratic
depend
enkratic
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References
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A Companion to
the Philosophy of Action.
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A Treatise of Human Nature.
Mind
Ethics and Practical Reason.
On What Matters.
What We Owe to Each Other.
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