Title Statements
- Full title :Against absolute goodness / Richard Kraut.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:cop. 2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:cop. 2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 224 p. ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199844463, 0199844461
- oclc:ocn852207881
- LC Classification:BJ1401 K72 2011
Table of Contents
Moore and the Idea of Goodness ; Goodness before and after Moore ; An Argument for Absolute Goodness ; Absolute Evil, Relative Goodness ; Recent Skepticism about Goodness ; Being Good and Being Good for Someone ; Noninstrumental Advantageousness ; The Problem of Intelligibility ; The Problem of Double Value ; Pleasure Reconsidered ; Scanlon's Buck-Passing Account of Value ; Moore's Argument against Relative Goodness ; Goodness and Variability ; Impersonality: An Ethical Objection to Absolute Goodness ; Further Reflections on the Ethical Objection ; Moore's Mistake about Unobserved Beauty ; Better States of Affairs and Buck-Passing ; The Enjoyment of Beauty ; Is Love Absolutely Good? Is Cruelty Absolutely Bad? ; Kant on Suicide ; Future Generations ; Biodiversity ; Is Equality Absolutely Good? ; The Value of Persons and Other Creatures ; Euthanasia ; The Extinction of Humankind ; The Case against Absolute Goodness Reviewed ; The Problem of Intelligibility Revisited ; Attributive and Predicative Uses of "Good" ; Appendix A: Killing Persons ; Appendix B: J. David Velleman on the Value Inhering in Persons ; Appendix C: Robert Merrihew Adams on the Highest Ground ; Appendix D: Thomas H…
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