This paper presents an argument against the widespread view that ‘hard choices’ are hard because of the incomparability of the alternatives. The argument has two parts. First, I argue that any plausible theory of practical reason must be ‘comparativist’ in form, that is, it must hold that a comparative relation between the alternatives with respect to what matters in the choice determines a jus...

An Aristotelian conception of practical ethics can be derived from the account of practical reasoning that Aristotle articulates in is Rhetoric and this has important implications for the way we understand the nature and limits of practical ethics. an important feature of this conception of practical ethics is its responsiveness to the complex ways in which agents form and maintain moral commit...

In the last decades, there has been a far-reaching debate about whether reason is natural power of human animal or socio-historical achievement. This paper brings out and criticizes two paradigmatic views entangled in that dilemma: substantive view which construes as primitive possessing basic forms intelligibility; derivative traces back to non-rational, natural-historic processes. I approach ...