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Life and action (Record no. 62745)

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fixed length control field 01878nam a2200385 a 4500
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 191
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Thompson, Michael,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Life and action
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Cambridge, Mass. :
Name of publisher Harvard University Press,
Year of publication 2008.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages vi, 223 p.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Part I: The representation of life -- Can life be given a real definition? -- The representation of the living individual -- The representation of the life-form itself -- Part II: Naive action theory -- Types of practical explanation -- Naive explanation of action -- Action and time -- Part III: Practical generality -- Two tendencies in practical philosophy -- Practices and dispositions as sources of the goodness of individual actions -- Practice and disposition as sources of individual action.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Ethics.
Topical Term Conduct of life.
Topical Term Life.
Topical Term Agent (Philosophy)
Topical Term Act (Philosophy)
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10312792

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