Dimensions of Practical Necessity: "Here I Stand. I Can Do No Other."

1. Dimensions of Practical Necessity: An Introduction

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

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

10. Shame and Necessity Redux (Heidi Maibom)

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

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