Book ReviewsRønnow-Rasmussen, Toni. Personal Value. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 185 Pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Ethics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 123 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-188
Author(s):  
Christian Coons
Keyword(s):  
Oxford University ◽  
Personal Value ◽  
Oxford University Press

The Personal and the Fitting

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Olson
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Fitting Attitudes ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Personal Value ◽  
Good For ◽  
Critical Notice ◽  
Oxford University Press

This paper is a critical notice of a recent significant contribution to the debate about fitting attitudes and value, namely Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen’s Personal Value (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). In this book, Rønnow-Rasmussen seeks to analyse the notion of personal value—an instance of the notion of good for a person—in terms of fitting attitudes. The paper has three main themes: (i) Rønnow-Rasmussen’s discussion of general problems for fitting attitude analyses; (ii) his formulation of the fitting attitude analysis of personal value and the notion of ‘for someone’s sake (fss) attitudes’; and (iii) his critique of the dichotomy between agent-neutral and agent-relative reasons.

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