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Language: en
Pages: 287
Pages: 287
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-02 - Publisher: OUP USA
This is a book about morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two. In it, Portmore defends a version of consequentialism that both comports w
Language: en
Pages: 289
Pages: 289
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:
Consequentialism is a focal point of moral philosophy. Recently, new wave consequentialists have presented theories which proved extremely flexible and powerful
Language: en
Pages: 193
Pages: 193
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-15 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Few philosophers attempt to establish that there is an evaluative and moral realm. They make these major assumptions without argument. This plays into the hands
Language: en
Pages: 200
Pages: 200
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-20 - Publisher: Routledge
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
Language: en
Pages: 286
Pages: 286
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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