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Consequentialism collects, for the first time, both the main classical sources and the central contemporary expressions of this important position. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these readings are essential for anyone interested in normative ethics. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, examines key topics in the consequentialist branch of moral theory. Includes seven essays which respond to the classic sources. Includes an insightful discussion of central topics in consequentialism by John Rawls and Amartya Sen. Includes classic articles by key figures such Jeremy Bentham,…mehr

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Consequentialism collects, for the first time, both the main classical sources and the central contemporary expressions of this important position. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these readings are essential for anyone interested in normative ethics.
Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, examines key topics in the consequentialist branch of moral theory.
Includes seven essays which respond to the classic sources.
Includes an insightful discussion of central topics in consequentialism by John Rawls and Amartya Sen.
Includes classic articles by key figures such Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick and G. E. Moore; and recent reactions to this work by philosophers including Philip Pettit, Derek Parfit, Samuel Scheffler, Peter Railton, R. B. Brandt, J. C. Harsanyi, and Robert Adams.
Autorenporträt
Stephen Darwall is the John Dewey Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He has written widely on moral philosophy and its history, and is the author of Impartial Reason (1983), The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640-1740 (1995), Philosophical Ethics (1998), and Welfare and Rational Care (2002). He is the editor, with Allan Gibbard and Peter Railton, of Moral Discourse and Practice (1997).
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'A judicious selection, which offers not only a broad view ofthe main lines of consequentialist thought and its history, but aninsight into significant recent developments within the tradition,and some widely discussed objections to it.' Roger Crisp,St Anne's College

'Darwall's collection is ideal for a variety ofundergraduate and graduate courses in ethical theory in whichconsequentialism is a central topic. It contains generous excerptsfrom the main historical proponents of consequentialism and awell-chosen selection of contemporary expressions and discussionsof consequentialism.' David O. Brink, University ofCalifornia, San Diego