Beyond Consequentialism
by Hurley, Paul
Paul Hurley sets out a radical challenge to consequentialism, the theory which might seem to be the default option in contemporary moral philosophy. There is an unresolved tension within the theory: if consequentialists are right about the content of morality, then morality cannot have the rational authority that even they take it to have.
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Paul Hurley sets out a radical challenge to consequentialism, the theory which might seem to be the default option in contemporary moral philosophy. There is an unresolved tension within the theory: if consequentialists are right about the content of morality, then morality cannot have the rational authority that even they take it to have.
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- Publication Date:2009
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:und
- Publication Date:2009
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Paul Hurley sets out a radical challenge to consequentialism, the theory which might seem to be the default option in contemporary moral philosophy. There is an unresolved tension within the theory: if consequentialists are right about the content of morality, then morality cannot have the rational authority that even they take it to have.
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- Description:275 s
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- ISBN:0199559309, 9780199559305
- oclc:ocn759724858
- LC Classification:BJ1500.C63
- Dewey Decimal:171.5
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. The Challenge to Consequentialism: A Troubling Normative Triad; 3. The Demandingness Objection: Too Demanding, Or Not Demanding at All? 4. Harnessing Williams to Sharpen the Challenge to Consequentialism; 5. Deflating the Challenge iof Consequentialism; 6. From Impersonality to Interpersonality: Alternative Conceptions of Impartiality; 7. Impartial Evaluation and Rational Authority; 8. Generalizing to Other Forms of Consequentialism; Bibliography
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