Books by Jonathan Jacobs

Provides an account of ethical realism that combines both abstract meta-ethical issues defining the debate on realism and concrete topics in moral psychology. This title argues that practical reasoners can both understand the ethical significance of facts and be motivated to act by that understanding.

Are there key respects in which character and character defects are voluntary? Can agents with serious vices be rational agents? Jonathan Jacobs answers in the affirmative. Moral character is shaped through voluntary habits, including the ways we...

This alphabetic guide introduces the main positions, key figures, basic approaches, and central problems in ethical theory. Thorough and up-to-date it is a uniquely concise but comprehensive philosophical reference work to the subject.