RT Article
T1 Reasons Consequentialism
JF Journal of moral philosophy
VO 10
IS 5
SP 671
OP 682
A1 Sachs, Benjamin
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2013
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/181747104X
AB Douglas Portmore’s recent book, Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Rationality Meets Morality, is an ambitious, painstaking effort to render the moral requirements of consequentialism consistent both with our intuitions and with the requirements of rationality. Portmore argues for a version of consequentialism that requires one to act in accordance with one’s reasons for preference or reasons for desire. I raise doubts here as to whether such reasons can explain moral requirements and whether, if they do, it would be of any practical use to know that they do.
K1 Goodness
K1 Rationality
K1 Reasons
K1 Consequentialism
DO 10.1163/17455243-01005006