Against absolute goodness
Richard Kraut argues that goodness is not a reason-giving property--in fact, there may be no such thing.
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- Full title :Against absolute goodness / Richard Kraut.
Summary
Richard Kraut argues that goodness is not a reason-giving property--in fact, there may be no such thing.
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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:xii, 224 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199844463, 0199844461
- oclc:ocn705568105
- LC Classification:BJ1401
- Dewey Decimal:170
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 Highes…
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