Rejection of Consequentialism A Philosophical Investigation of the Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conceptions

Name: Rejection of Consequentialism A Philosophical Investigation of the Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conceptions
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ISBN: 9780198235118

ISBN-10: 0198235119

ISBN-13: 9780198235118

Edition: 2nd 1994 (Revised)

Authors: Samuel Scheffler

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In contemporary philosophy, substantive moral theories are typically classified as either consequentialist or deontological. Standard consequentialist theories insist, roughly, that agents must always act so as to produce the best available outcomes overall. Standard deontological theories, by contrast, maintain that there are some circumstances where one is permitted but not required to produce the best overall results, and still other circumstances in which one is positively forbidden to do so. Classical utilitarianism is the most familiar consequentialist view, but it is widely regarded as an inadequate account of morality. Although Samuel Scheffler agrees with this assessment, he also…

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List price: $49.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/22/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.50" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



the Rejection Of Consequentialism


Preface



The Project and Its Motivation



Outline of a New Theory of Normative Ethics



The Independence and Distinctness of the Personal Point of View



The Defence of Agent-Centred Restrictions: Intuitions in Search of a Foundation



The Project Reconsidered


Appendices


Index