Practical rationality for pluralists about the good

I argue that if a normative theory of practical rationality is to represent an adequate and coherent response to a plurality of incommensurable goods, it cannot be a maximising theory. It will have to be a theory that recognises two responses to goods as morally licit – promotion and respect – and o...

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主要作者: Chappell, Timothy (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2003
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2003, 卷: 6, 發布: 2, Pages: 161-177
Further subjects:B Axiology
B Deontology
B Incommensurability
B Practical rationality
B Consequentialism
B Normative ethics
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總結:I argue that if a normative theory of practical rationality is to represent an adequate and coherent response to a plurality of incommensurable goods, it cannot be a maximising theory. It will have to be a theory that recognises two responses to goods as morally licit – promotion and respect – and one as morally illicit – violation. This result has a number of interesting corollaries, some of which I indicate. Perhaps the most interesting is that it makes the existence of a plurality of incommensurable goods incompatible with consequentialism.
ISSN:1572-8447
Contains:Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/A:1024472726317