Against absolute goodness
Are there things we should value because they are, quite simply good? Richard Kraut argues that there are not. Goodness, he holds, is not a reason-giving property - in fact, there may be no such thing. It is an illusory and insidious category of practical thought.
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- Full title :Against absolute goodness / Richard Kraut.
Summary
Are there things we should value because they are, quite simply good? Richard Kraut argues that there are not. Goodness, he holds, is not a reason-giving property - in fact, there may be no such thing. It is an illusory and insidious category of practical thought.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 224 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199844470, 019984447X, 9780199919550, 0199919550
- oclc:ocn773935227
- LC Classification:BJ1401
- Dewey Decimal:170
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Moore and the Idea of Goodness; 2. Goodness before and after Moore; 3. An Argument for Absolute Goodness; 4. Absolute Evil, Relative Goodness; 5. Recent Skepticism about Goodness; 6. Being Good and Being Good for Someone; 7. Noninstrumental Advantageousness; 8. The Problem of Intelligibility; 9. The Problem of Double Value; 10. Pleasure Reconsidered; 11. Scanlon's Buck-Passing Account of Value; 12. Moore's Argument against Relative Goodness; 13. Goodness and Variability; 14. Impersonality: An Ethical Objection to Absolute Goodness.
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