Goodness and Justice

A Consequentialist Moral Theory

By:

Joseph Mendola

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Series:

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

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In Goodness and Justice, Joseph Mendola develops a unified moral theory that defends the hedonism of classical utilitarianism, while evading utilitarianism's familiar difficulties by adopting two modifications. His theory incorporates a developed form of consequentialism. When, as is common, someone is engaged in conflicting group acts, it requires that one perform one's role in that group act that is most beneficent. The theory also holds that overall value is distribution-sensitive, ceding maximum weight to the well-being of the worst-off sections of sentient lives. It is properly congruent with commonsense intuition and required by the true metaphysics of value, by the unconstituted natural good found in our world.

Author Biography:

Joseph Mendola is professor and chair in the department of philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the author of Human Thought, and of articles on ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind.

Release date NZ

April 10th, 2006

Author

Joseph Mendola

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

338

Series

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

Dimensions

152x229x22

ISBN-13

9780521859530

Product ID

2399224

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