Title: Human interests : or ethics for physicalists /
Authors: Mendola, Joseph.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Consequentialism (Ethics); Preferences (Philosophy); Responsibility
Abstract: Joseph Mendola defends an original ethical theory in the consequentialist tradition, which also incorporates contractarian and deontological elements. He argues that this theory is required by physical reality and the correct metaethics, and focuses in particular on the moral significance of group acts, and indeterminacies of morally relevant fact.
Contents: Alternatives. The indeterminacy of options -- The conditional analysis and modal stability -- Moral theory. Meaning and morality -- The road to desire -- Desire and the good -- Very simple desire -- The Leximin Desire Principle -- MAC2 -- From the good -- Applications. Individual obligations -- What morality demands.