Dimensions of Practical Necessity

1. Dimensions of Practical Necessity: An Introduction
Katharina Bauer, Somogy Varga, Corinna Mieth

Part I. Examples: The Necessity of Love and the Unforgivable

2. Loving Eyes of My Own: Love, Particularity, and Necessity
Marya Schechtman

3. “I Cannot Forgive You.” The Unforgivable as an Example of a Practical Necessity
Oliver Hallich

Part II. Normative Claims: Personal Practical Necessity and Practical Identities

4. Christine Korsgaard and the Normativity of Practical Identities
Christoph Bambauer

5. What if I Cannot Do What I Have to Do? Notions of Personal Practical Necessity and the Principle “Ought Implies Can”
Michael Kühler

Part III. Normative Challenges: Vice and Akrasia

6. Vice, Practical Necessity, and Agential Self-Destruction
Jonathan Jacobs

7. Three Ways to Understand Practical Necessity and Akrasia: Aristotle, Davidson, and Frankfurt
Kathi Beier

8. Here I Stand, I Could Do Other: Can A Person of Integrity Be Weak-Willed?
Arnd Pollmann

Part IV. Volitional and Psychological Challenges: Ambiguity, Psychopathy, and Shame

9. Where? Me? Indeterminacy and Ambiguity in Human Motivation
Jan Bransen

10. Shame and Necessity Redux

Heidi L. Maibom

Part V. Concluding Evaluations

11. Here I Stand: About the Weight of Personal Practical Necessity
Katharina Bauer

12. Morality and Happiness: Two Precarious Situations?
Corinna Mieth

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