Explaining Right and Wrong: A New Moral Pluralism and Its Implications - Brossura

Sachs, Benjamin

 
9780367667337: Explaining Right and Wrong: A New Moral Pluralism and Its Implications
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ISBN 10: 0367667339 ISBN 13: 9780367667337
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2020

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Explaining Right and Wrong aims to shake the foundations of contemporary ethics by showing that moral philosophers have been deploying a mistaken methodology in their efforts to figure out the truth about what we morally ought to do. Benjamin Sachs argues that moral theorizing makes sense only if it is conceived of as an explanatory project and carried out accordingly. The book goes on to show that the most prominent forms of moral monism―consequentialism, Kantianism, and contractarianism/contractualism―as well as Rossian pluralism, each face devastating explanatory objections. It offers in place of these flawed options a brand-new family of normative ethical theories, non-Rossian pluralism. It then argues that the best kind of non-Rossian pluralism will be spare; in particular, it will deny that an action can be wrong in virtue of constituting a failure to distribute welfare in a particular way or that an action can be wrong in virtue of constituting a failure to rescue. Furthermore, it also aims to show that a great deal of contemporary writing on the distribution of health care resources in cases of scarcity is targeted at questions that either have no answers at all or none that ordinary moral theorizing can uncover.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Benjamin Sachs is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. He has written on topics in normative ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, animal ethics, and coercion. He has papers in journals including Philosophical Studies and The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0367667339
ISBN 13 
9780367667337
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Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
188
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9781138307353: Explaining Right and Wrong: A New Moral Pluralism and Its Implications

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ISBN 10:  1138307351 ISBN 13:  9781138307353
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2017
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