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Moral Reasons

By Jonathan Dancy

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
1993
ISBN
0631187928, 9780631187929
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3696730 bytes)
Pages
292\281
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-12-20 06:13:47

Description

This book attempts to place a realist view of ethics (the claim that there are facts of the matter in ethics as elsewhere) within a broader context. It starts with a discussion of why we should mind about the difference between right and wrong, asks what account we should give of our ability to learn from our moral experience, and looks in some detail at the different sorts of ways in which moral reasons can combine to show us what we should do in the circumstances. The second half of the book uses these results to mount an attack on consequentialism in ethics, arguing that there are more sorts of reasons around than consequentialists can even dream of.

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