Experience and Conduct A Philosophical Enquiry into Practical Thinking [Paperback]

This study details the concepts of morality, prudence, justice, welfare and legality, as well as the logical foundations, epistemology and metaphysics of practical thinking.Professor K?rners comprehensive study of practical thinking shows the complex relations which a persons practical attitudes bear to each other, and in particular how their moral or prudential character depends not only on their content and form but also on their place in the system constituted by them.Professor K?rners comprehensive study of practical thinking shows the complex relations which a persons practical attitudes bear to each other, and in particular how their moral or prudential character depends not only on their content and form but also on their place in the system constituted by them.First published in 1976, this is a comprehensive study of practical thinking. Professor K?rner shows the complex relations which a person's practical attitudes bear to each other, and shows in particular how their moral or prudential character depends not only on their content and form but also on their place in the system constituted by them. There are detailed accounts of the concepts of morality, prudence, justice, welfare and legality, as well as the logical foundations, epistemology and metaphysics of practical thinking. The book is intended for philosophers and for those political theorists and social scientists who are concerned with the philosophical presuppositions and implications of their enquiries. The book is deliberately organized so that those with less interest in the logical issues dealt with in Part I can proceed quickly and easily to the more substantive issues in Parts II and III.Preface; Introduction: the place and plan of the enquiry; Part I. On the Formal Structure of Practical Thinking: 1. The logical foundations of practical thinking; 2. On the formal structure of ontological and deontological constraints; 3. On the formal structure of probabilistic thinking; 4. On the forml³"