Common Sense Morality And Consequentialism

Author : Michael A. Slote
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000073424
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism written by Michael A. Slote and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985 and now re-issued with a new preface, this study assesses the two major moral theories of ethical consequentialism and common-sense morality by means of mutual comparison and an attempt to elicit the implications and tendencies of each theory individually. The author shows that criticisms and defences of common-sense morality and of consequentialism give inadequate characterizations of the dispute between them and thus at best provide incomplete rationales for either of these influential moral views. Both theories face inherent difficulties, some familiar but others mentioned for the first time in this work. The argument proceeds by reference to historical figures like Bentham, Ross and Sidgwick and to contemporary thinkers such as Williams, Nagel, Hare and Sen.

Author : Douglas W. Portmore
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199794537
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commonsense Consequentialism written by Douglas W. Portmore and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two. In it, Portmore defends a version of consequentialism that both comports with our commonsense moral intuitions and shares with consequentialist theories the same compelling teleological conception of practical reasons.

Author : Christian Seidel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190919388
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consequentialism written by Christian Seidel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consequentialism is a focal point of discussion and a driving force behind important developments in moral philosophy. Recently, the debate has shifted in focus and in style. By seeking to consequentialize rival moral theories, in particular those with agent-relative characteristics, and by framing accounts in terms of reasons rather than in terms of value, an emerging new wave consequentialism has presented - at much higher levels of abstraction - theories which proved extremely flexible and powerful in meeting long-standing and influential objections. This volume of new essays on new wave consequentialism initiates and stimulates novel lines of discussions among proponents and their critics. The contributions explore new directions in new wave consequentialism and present refined conceptual frameworks (in Part I), raise challenging fundamental problems for these frameworks and the new wave's theoretical basis (in Part II), and give a balanced assessment of the new wave's limits and achievements in specific contexts of commonsense moral practice (in Part III). The volume will be of interest to all readers in ethical and moral theory.

Author : Joseph Mendola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139455087
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goodness and Justice written by Joseph Mendola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Goodness and Justice, Joseph Mendola develops a unified moral theory that defends the hedonism of classical utilitarianism, while evading utilitarianism's familiar difficulties by adopting two modifications. His theory incorporates a developed form of consequentialism. When, as is common, someone is engaged in conflicting group acts, it requires that one perform one's role in that group act that is most beneficent. The theory also holds that overall value is distribution-sensitive, ceding maximum weight to the well-being of the worst-off sections of sentient lives. It is properly congruent with commonsense intuition and required by the true metaphysics of value, by the unconstituted natural good found in our world.

Author : Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common-sense Ethics written by Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William L. Langenfus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-effacing Consequentialism written by William L. Langenfus and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Slote
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190208104
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Morality to Virtue written by Michael Slote and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue. Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality, and he argues that the problems of other views can be avoided and a contemporary plausible version of virtue ethics achieved only by abandoning specifically moral concepts for general aretaic notions like admirability and virtue. Although this study is not bound by particular Aristotelian doctrines, it places an Aristotelian emphasis on both self-benefiting and other-benefiting virtues. Slote criticizes Kantian and common-sense morality for internal incoherencies and for downgrading the moral individual and her well-being in some previously unnoticed ways. By contrast, this book defends a distinctive, intuitive, and symmetric ethical principle according to which we should balance self-concern with concern for others, but it also concludes that there is, contrary to utilitarianism, no single basis for status as a virtue nor any simple relation between the virtues and human well-being.

Author : Samuel Scheffler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198750730
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consequentialism and Its Critics written by Samuel Scheffler and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents papers discussing arguments on both sides of the consequentialist debate. The distinguished contributors include John Rawls, Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, Derek Parfit, among others.

Author : Vuko Andrić
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000405443
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Value to Rightness written by Vuko Andrić and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops an original version of act-consequentialism. It argues that act-consequentialists should adopt a subjective criterion of rightness. The book develops new arguments which strongly suggest that, according to the best version of act-consequentialism, the rightness of actions depends on expected rather than actual value. Its findings go beyond the debate about consequentialism and touch on important debates in normative ethics and metaethics. The distinction between criterion of rightness and decision procedures addresses how, why, and in which sense moral theories must be implemented by ordinary persons. The discussion of the rationales of "ought" implies "can" leads to the discovery of a hitherto overlooked moral principle, "ought" implies "evidence", which can be used to show that most prominent moral theories are false. Finally, in the context of discussing cases that are supposed to reveal intuitions that favour either objective or subjective consequentialism, the book argues that which cases are relevant for the discussion of objectivism and subjectivism depends on the type of moral theory we are concerned with (consequentialism, Kantianism, virtue ethics, etc.). From Value to Rightness will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in normative ethics and metaethics.

Author : Derek Parfit
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622443
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reasons and Persons written by Derek Parfit and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1986-01-23 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.