Value, Welfare, and Morality
- Editors:
- R. G. Frey
- Christopher W. Morris
- Date Published: December 1993
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521416962
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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.
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- Date Published: December 1993
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521416962
- length: 340 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.581kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Preface
1. Value, welfare and morality R. G. Frey and Christopher W. Morris
2. The land of lost content Simon Blackburn
3. Putting rationality in its place Warren Quinn
4. Can a Humean be moderate? John Broome
5. Welfare, preference and rationality L. W. Sumner
6. Preference Arthur Ripstein
7. Reason and needs David Copp
8. Desired desires Gilbert Harman
9. On the winding road from good to right James Griffin
10. Value, reasons and the sense of justice David Gauthier
11. Agent-relativity of value, deontic restraints and self-ownership Eric Mack
12. Agent-relativity - the very idea Jonathan Dancy
13. The separateness of persons, distributive norms and moral theory David Brink
14. Harmful goods, harmless bads Larry Temkin.
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