Value, Welfare, and Morality

This book addresses critical issues in normative ethical theory. Every such theory must contain not only a theory of motivation but also a theory of value, and the link that is often forged between what is valuable and what would be right is human welfare or well-being. This topic is a subject of considerable controversy in contemporary ethics, not least because of the current reconsideration of utilitarianism. Indeed, there is as much disagreement about the nature of value and its relationship to welfare and morality, as there is about the substantive content of normative ethical theories. The essays in this collection, all written by a distinguished team of moral philosophers, provide an overview, analysis and an attempted resolution of those controversies. They constitute a rigorous account of the relationships among value, welfare and morality.

ISBN 0521416965   Pages 340 ISBN13 9780521416962 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 670 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Hardback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 07 Oct 1993   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress HM73 .V35 1993   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY 303.372   Academic level Professional / Scholarly, Tertiary education DEWEY edition DC20

		List of contributors
1		Value, welfare, and morality by R. G. Frey and Christopher W. Morris		1
2		The land of lost content by Simon Blackburn		13
3		Putting rationality in its place by Warren Quinn		26
4		Can a Humean be moderate? by John Broome		51
5		Welfare, preference, and rationality by L. W. Sumner		74
6		Preference by Arthur Ripstein		93
7		Reason and needs by David Copp		112
8		Desired desires by Gilbert Harman		138
9		On the winding road from good to right by James Griffin		158
10		Value, reasons, and the sense of justice by David Gauthier		180
11		Agent-relativity of value, deontic restraints, and self-ownership by Eric Mack		209
12		Agent-relativity - the very idea by Jonathan Dancy		233
13		The separateness of persons, distributive norms, and moral theory by David Brink		252
14		Harmful goods, harmless bads by Larry Temkin		290

"...each essay provides a carefully argued point of view on an important issue...It should be of real interest to anyone working in the relevant areas of value theory." The Philosophical Review

 Be the first to write a customer review