Goodness and justice
Subtitle: a consequentialist moral theory
By: Joseph Mendola.
Series: Cambridge studies in philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Ethics; Consequentialism (Ethics); Good and evil; Justice (Philosophy)
Description: "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 new 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A better consequentialism; title: Hedonism; title: Maximin; title: Advice for atomic agents.