ISBN:
9780511625022
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 324 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
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DDC:
303.3/72
Keywords:
Social values
;
Values
;
Social values
;
Values
Abstract:
This book addresses critical issues in normative ethical theory. Every such theory must contain not only a theory of motivation but also a theory of value, and the link that is often forged between what is valuable and what would be right is human welfare or well-being. This topic is a subject of considerable controversy in contemporary ethics, not least because of the current reconsideration of utilitarianism. Indeed, there is as much disagreement about the nature of value and its relationship to welfare and morality, as there is about the substantive content of normative ethical theories. The essays in this collection, all written by a distinguished team of moral philosophers, provide an overview, analysis and an attempted resolution of those controversies. They constitute a rigorous account of the relationships among value, welfare and morality
Abstract:
Value, welfare, and morality / R.G. Frey and Christopher W. Morris--The land of lost content / Simon Blackburn--Putting rationality in its place / Warren Quinn--Can a Humean be moderate? / John Broome--Welfare, preference, and rationality / L.W. Sumner--Preference / Arthur Ripstein--Reason and needs / David Copp--Desired desires / Gilbert Harman--On the winding road from good to right / James Griffin--Value, reasons, and the sense of justice / David Gauthier--Agent-relativity of value, deontic restraints, and self-ownership / Eric Mack--Agent-relativity: the very idea / Jonathan Dancy--The separateness of persons, distributive norms, and moral theory / David Brink--Harmful goods, harmless bads / Larry Temkin
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511625022
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