The Rational Good: A Study in the Logic of Practice (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

L. T. Hobhouse

9780331166484: The Rational Good: A Study in the Logic of Practice (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331166488 ISBN 13: 9780331166484

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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The Rational Good: A Study in the Logic of Practice explains how harmony between feeling, experience, and universal relations builds a rational guide to life.

This book argues that moral judgment rests on a real, testable relation between our experiences and our feelings. It discusses how true ends must be interlinked through consistent beliefs and universal principles, forming a rational basis for judgment and action. The author surveys how society, religion, and culture shape our sense of the good, and why a harmony of ends across minds is central to ethical life.

How moral obligation is argued to be a real, not just a feeling, phenomenon.
What makes a command or judgment reasonable when it seeks universal harmony.
The role of development, harmony, and social life in shaping a rational good.
Connections between ethics, evolution, and progress toward a more coherent moral order.

Ideal for readers of philosophy and ethics who want a clear account of why rational harmony matters for action and judgment, and how the idea of the Rational Good informs moral life.

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About the Author

Martin White is an intranet and information management strategy consultant, running Intranet Focus Ltd since 1999. He has been Visiting Professor at the Department of Information Studies, (now renamed the iSchool) at the University of Sheffield, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2006 for his work in information management for the pharmaceutical industry.

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